What does it mean to dream about clothes?
Clothes tend to stand for the self you present to others, so notice whether they fit the moment, felt borrowed, or left you exposed.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read clothing as concealment and display at once, the cover over the body and its wishes. Being wrongly dressed or undressed often points to anxiety about exposure.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see clothes as the persona, the outer face you wear in the world. A change of dress can mark a change of role, while strange or ill-fitting clothes can show a gap between who you seem and who you are.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties clothes to waking concerns about identity, fitting in, and how you are judged. Wearing the wrong thing in a dream often echoes real worry about a part you are playing.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Garments transform their wearers across myth, from the cloak of invisibility to the robe that confers or destroys, like the poisoned shirt of Nessus. To put on new dress was often to take on a new fate.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).