Possible Clues:

• Writes about losing one item of clothing
• In turn, put in answer "trousers"? Yes!
• After losing head, scatters item of clothing
• Tartan garments
• Pants and straightens up, you might say
• Disperse head-to-foot clothing for the clans
• Wife dressed in very continental clothes
• Head-to-toe cover for garment?
• Tailor's initial trick, we hear, making trousers
• Tartan trousers worn by Scottish regiments