Apparel in LibEcho is defined as anything that a Person can wear. This includes clothing, jewelry, and perhaps even naughty toys in some cases.

The Apparel system also provides the Wardrobe and WornApparel classes, which are special subclasses of GeneralInventory that only deal with Apparel. Wardrobe is a lightly modified GeneralInventory that modifies the sorting implementation to make it more clothing-specific (although it can still contain any PersistentObject, non Apparel objects will all be lumped into the “Other” category). WornApparel is used by the Person classes to track what a Person is wearing, and enforces the rule of only one article of apparel per ClothingSlot (see below).

In general, you may use a Wardrobe interchangeably with a GeneralInventory when using the InventoryUI macro. For the wearing and removing of Apparel by a Person, however, a modified version (ApparelUI) is provided. The left-hand inventory provided to ApparelUI should always be a Person (not a WornApparel, but the higher-level Person object that is dressing/undressing). The right-hand inventory should always be a Wardrobe.

: Document how WornApparel and Wardrobe interact as far as items technically remaining in the Wardrobe while they are worn by a Person.