[montagg]

One has to wonder at what point the utility of clothes doesn’t make sense, and astronauts should just get used to working naked.

Not actually advocating for that—beyond cultural difficulties, I’m pretty sure clothes are useful enough to maintain—but it’s an interesting thought exercise to zoom out from “how to wash clothes better” to “how to do the job clothes do better with minimal cost.”

[nine_k]

The first thing I'd miss is pockets. Working with your hands, e.g. conducting experiments, usually requires a number of items to be close at hand, and you can't put anything on a workbench at zero g.

The second thing is individual thermal comfort. Say, 20°C is usually "fine for everyone", but some people would feel that it's quite warm to wear a T-shirt, while other people would find it barely warm enough to not wear a coat.