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Taking off something (past tense taken off)

The Standard Rules give Inform only a simple model of clothing. A thing can be worn only if it has the either/or property of being 'wearable'. (Typing a sentence like 'Mr Jones wears the Homburg hat.' automatically implies that the hat is wearable, which is why we only seldom need to use the word 'wearable' directly.) There is no checking of how much or how little any actor is wearing, or how incongruous this may appear: nor any distinction between under or over-clothes.

When an article of clothing is taken off, it becomes a thing directly carried by its former wearer, rather than being (say) dropped onto the floor.

Typed commands leading to this action

    "take off [something]"
    "remove [something preferably held]"
    "shed [something preferably held]"

Rules controlling this action

    before    doing something in The Captain's Office   
    check        an actor taking off  can't take off what's not worn rule
    carry out    an actor taking off  standard taking off rule
    report        (display LibMsg <report player taking off>; ...) [E1]
    report        someone trying taking off   [E1]
    report        an actor taking off  standard report taking off rule