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continuing from the preceding post

The point about the use of clothes and garment for a purpose and that they have no value in themselves and therefore are not religious symbols apply even on clothes, like Abaya in the middle east, that are made specifically to serve the function of covering the body of a woman from being seen (hijab). 

For answering the garb that shows religious affiliation part, we say that if a girl uses a piece of garment as a headscarf or wear bigger size clothes and because of that she gets recognize as a Muslim it is the way those things were used that show the "religious affiliation" not the bigger clothes or the piece of garment themselves. If you look at a crescent or a cross or a yamaka by itself you can still see its religious connection. But what religious connection can you see in, for example, a piece of garment that was used as a headscarf when it is not being worn?