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That filler is in there for other audience members. I think of clothing descriptions as filler too, but I remember Brandon Sanderson mentioning how female draft readers for Mistborn kept objecting to him that he wasn't going into enough detail about what the protagonist was wearing.

You may not notice that text you didn't want to read anyway is just random self-contradicting gibberish, but someone wanted to read that part of it, and they will notice.