So the subject of your research is a creature able to make clothing function as powered armor? Fascinating... I'd quite like to study the mechanism behind such an effect.

[perhaps some kind of short-ranged telekinetic effect, not unlike Superman's "super-strength"?]

An arbitrary numerical designation. My home planet has had limited contact with its counterparts in several parallel universes. I saw fit to specify, having encountered sufficient evidence to make it worth considering the hypothesis that I may not only be off my own planet, but outside my own universe.