I'm reading a novel set in Ancient Greece, from which I have learned that a chiton was an ancient Greek tunic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiton_(garment). Coming from a biological background my first association for the word was a marine mollusc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiton.
And let me tell you, the sentence "the damp chiton clung to the curve of her hip" reads very differently if that's the understanding you have of the word.
"She's a ten, but she's covered in soggy molluscs"