Clothing

Roles: garment, wearer, outfit, accessory, fit, layering, uniform, disguise, fashion

What we wear and how we wear it. As a source domain, clothing foregrounds identity performance (you are what you wear), the tension between protection and display, and the social grammar of appropriateness. Its metaphorical transfers are strongest when the target involves presentation, layering, or the visible expression of invisible commitments. The frame provides natural vocabulary for “putting on” roles, “wearing” responsibilities, and “outgrowing” positions.

As Source Frame (1)