The Cloths are of extreme importance to Saints both defensively and offensively. While Bronze Cloths cover a small part of the body, usually the most important vital points and not much more, the Gold Cloths leaves very small parts of the body uncovered, like the upper part of the legs and arms. It's an usual trait that the stronger the Cloth is, the more it covers the wearer's body, with a few exceptions.
For example, an Aries object of Cloth will not walk, speak, fight like a golden metal Ram-man or transform from ram to man, but the Aries object will fly to join its owner, it will turn into armor and can be worn by its owner such as Mu. Kurumada gave semi-anthropomorphic style to the Cloths. There are 48 Bronze Cloths, 24 Silver Cloths, 12 Gold Cloths, 4 Cloths of unknown material and, outside of the 88, one more Cloth that is Athena's Cloth, a God Cloth. There is one cloth for each constellation. The 88 Cloths ( 聖衣 クロス, Kurosu ?) are the armors worn by Athena's Saints.
