A "pink hat" is not necessarily a female fan, nor do they all literally wear pink hats.

Mr. Hirst literally wears his fascination for the macabre.

Why create a new character only to have him literally wear the clothes of the old one?

He was literally wearing my thread.

For years, the waiters literally wore their service histories on their sleeves.

Mrs. Hunt, 30, arrived here by a circuitous path, and she literally wears clues to her previous life.

You could literally wear anything, 'cause the flower power thing had taken over and whatever you were wearing was just fine.

They were men without color, literally wearing gray and beige and brown.

Bagism involved literally wearing a bag over one's entire body.

These phrases referred to a genre of drama in which the main characters literally wore these items.