Affliction making it difficult to be stylish (5)
I believe the answer is:
cramp
'affliction' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'it difficult to be stylish' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'be' could be 'am' and 'am' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'making' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cramp that I've seen before include "To restrict; a muscle pain" , "Sudden painful tightening of a muscle" , "Muscle spasm" , "Severe muscular pain" , "Painful muscular contraction" .)