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Clothes, as a primary means of self-representation, are statements to the world and expressions of the self that reveal and conceal: they can be an expression of love or hatred of the self, or by the self to others. The body and the clothing it wears are the venues in which affective experience is most obviously and concretely expressed to the world at large. The complexity and context-dependent nature of clothing choice, within the cultural landscape and in our psychic inner self-states, can wax and wane with our conscious and unconscious feelings. The experience, difficulties or trauma people have with packing clothes highlights symbolically how desire, wanting, and the uncertainty of possibilities play out through one’s choice and use of clothes and is illustrated by a clinical case.