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If you want clothes that go darker (which I also do) then an intermediate brightness is best ...

The real problem with black clothes is lighting. A lot of wetlook photography even from professionals fails to be lit properly. Wet hair for example is a matter of texture and to get texture in dark wet hair, you need a lot of light. Black clothes are the same -- there's dry/wet contrast if there is enough light. The extremely limited intensity range of digital imagery poses a significant problem, and one that the human eye and brain (since the nervous system around the eye performs a lot of preprocessing) can cope with. Classic example: bright skies are often white in photos and film, which the eye and brain compensate for perfectly when you seeing it first hand. I can look at my computer screen across a dark room and make out the screen contents perfectly. Switch on the light, and the screen goes from being be a collossal margin the brightest object in the room, to a relatively dim one. A camera would shit a brick over that, and I don't even notice any intensity change.

Of course, I also have to consider what I think the girl should be wearing when dry, both because being dry is the majority of life, and because of wanting to see her wet in her normal clothes.