Possible Clues:

• Bad-tempered (like a garment?)
• Irritable
• Cross
• Garment ratty at the back — very much so!
• Bad-tempered (informal)
• Hot under the collar, collared and cuffed?
• Thirsty, leaderless, terribly annoyed
• Ill-tempered figure has succeeded for first time
• Hot under the collar, like a buttoned-up garment?
• Annoyed (informal)