Story idea – living clothes

What if I told you that clothes, like the shirt on your back, was actually alive? What if I told you the sock that just happened to get lost in the wash didn’t actually get lost, but ran away? If you don’t believe me, then you’d probably be right. But, if clothes were alive, just like any other animal in the world, then that’d be a pretty crazy world. What would I feed my shirt? What should we do about all the discarded and abandoned clothes? Would washing whites with colors be a form of animal abuse? What if my plain white tee doesn’t identify with being tie-dyed? I don’t think I would want to live in that sort of world, but I think if clothes were alive and revolted against humans, I think humans would have a difficult time winning. Wearing clothes is the social norm in most societies and who knows how many more clothes there are than humans. Also, clothes might have some parasitic abilities and might have the ability to take over their hosts. Perhaps nudist colonies are on to something. Perhaps all the talk about climate change, pandemics, the economy, gender wars, and so on are all a distraction and we should really be focusing on what to do when the clothes attack.