「Covering, asserting control」over「emphasis on rod head in transformation」that would be clothing used perhaps to conceal what is underneath, or more likely, to adorn oneself an become sexually alluring for the specific purpose of attracting attention to oneself…note that most traditional dress the world over were shaped as a tunic, toga, sarong, skirt, dress (anything other than what today are called 'pants, trousers') enabling quick and easy access with equally quick cover-up or escape. Originally referred to LONG CLOTHS AS WRAPPINGS for a body or body part, such as loincloths or today in the West, a DRESS such as a sarong, but more specifically referred to the foot binding cloths of concubines in China:「covering the palm holding spot, asserting control」over「a person's head, up and in a sitting concubine, or the raised feet of sitting person.」…It goes without saying, perhaps, that while a no-longer-integrated foot was bound in a long cloth, it could not be accessed for its intended sexual use by a client or other person exactly as these elements describe.
A wrapped DRESSING or cloth BINDING, wearing CLOTHS became「clothes, clothing, dress」in English. It is normally easier to clothe oneself and to apply foot bindings while in a sitting position while raising one's feet off the floor, one at a time.
The top of this glyph (palming, control, covering) is often split from the lower portion, and appears as two elements, with some other element in the middle depicting an integral function of some particular CLOTH DRESSING. Related elements provide a further explanation of wrapping long cloths around the feet of a person who may need to be sitting most of the time (lower-right element, 匕).
Significantly and not coincidentally, lower elements morphed from 'multiple sitting persons with no-longer-integrated feet' (比) and (化),「control over, emphasis on rod」with「transformation, bewitching, delusion and charm.」What causes the transformation of a person more completely in the minds of onlookers and the individual himself or herself more than the clothing being worn? what causes us to form our opinions of someone at first sight? what is the difference between a prostitute and a queen when both are naked? or clothed? (only her clothing). Is 'every girl really crazy about a sharp-dressed man' regardless of the actual person inside the cloth[e]s?
Furthermore, seen as part of old seal glyphs in China, these elements formerly were「control of sex slave's no-longer-integrated feet」with「reaming」on each side, still visible as the upper portion of 齊, 濟, 齋, and 韲 that was simplified within seal glyphs as 一, 丫, and ハ combined, drawn symmetrically as emphasis markers on each side of「sex slave slit」with「arrayed」: 示 except with (丫) 'female sex slave' replacing (丁) 'male.' Those older elements clearly are describing FOOT-BINDING CLOTHS.
Initially, male pants legs of trousers were not connected to each other at the crotch and were two separate pieces of clothing, which is why the plural forms of pants, slacks, trousers are still used for English words. Today, apparently no single Unihan character exists to represent the old lower element, probably since some folks wish to bury the past somewhat, which is understandable.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to dress; to wear; to put on (clothes); clothes
Japanese EDRDG: garment, clothes, dressing
Unihan extended: clothes, clothing; cover, skin