In this work I am providing comments on some important factors that must be accounted for when robotics comes near to the human body, as in the case of wearable robots. In addition to well-known socio-demographic factors such as sex/gender, age, ethnicity, skin color and emotional and culturally-determined sense of personal space, characteristics of health professionals and caregivers, here I stress the necessity to take into account also fashion and the questions raised by it