Many primates use black skin as a clue to stature. Our feelings about color are carried through to our tastes in clothes. Black is concealed, defensive but dominant, mourning dress B Black Panthers' and Hell's Angels' dress - tuxedos, slinky evening gowns, and mink stoles. White is wedding dress, diapers, soft underwear, formal gloves, and bulging blouses. Black nighties are suggestively aggressive, white is naively virgin, as the currents between sex and status intermingle.
Contours are important clues to status, especially weapons and areas that wield the weaponry.
We use clothes to pad and remodel our body contours to transform our social image. Shoulder padding is probably the best example. We use threat psychology in sports with shoulder padding. Football shoulder pads extend well out over the shoulder angle, unlike hip and knee pads that conform closely to the body contour. We remodel contours to modify sexual signals with breast harnesses and padding, waist tighteners, butt lifters and stiffeners, and belly flatteners.