I argue that this is possible because this class of nouns are coerced into relational nouns.
by building on the insight of Vikner and Jensen (2002), I argue that they can undergo type-shifting on the basis of their telic function (i.e., clothes are to wear), as a result of which the concomitant meaning-shift operation derives the relational denotation in (29) from the original, non-relational one: λx[CLOTHES(x)] (where CLOTHES stands for any noun denoting clothes or accessories).