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ELI5 Why is it more difficult to put clothes on slightly wet skin?

Often after taking a shower, it is difficult to put, say, socks if the skin is not well-dried. This is cause the fabric kinda sticks to the skin in ways it doesn't when it is not wey. Why is that? Shouldn't water generate less friction than normal, not-wet skin?
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The water causes the clothes to stick to your skin because the fabric is attracted to the water. It's the same basic principal that allows paper towels to soak up water. This increases the total amount of fabric-to-skin contact.

>Shouldn't water generate less friction than normal, not-wet skin?

Yes but normally when you put on clothes there's little to no fabric-to-skin contact, so even though water is better than skin, it's worse than just avoiding contact altogether. A better comparison would be wet clothes vs a skin-tight rubber suit. The wet clothes are easier to put on because fabric-to-wet skin contact is better than rubber-to-skin contact.