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Black and white clothing starts to chafe kids in the team (6)

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I believe the answer is:

picked

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'in the team' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'black and white clothing starts to chafe kids' is the wordplay.
'black and white' becomes 'pied' (I've seen this before).
'clothing' indicates putting letters inside (some letters cover up or clothe others).
'starts to' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'chafe kids' is 'ck'.
'pied' going around 'ck' is 'PICKED'.

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(Other definitions for picked that I've seen before include "Chose" , "Chosen" , "Selected or unlocked with a wire" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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