Women please half. I am into nun's garment (6)

I believe the answer is:

wimple

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'nun's garment' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'women please half i am into' is the wordplay.
'women' becomes 'w'.
'half' means to take half the letters.
'i am' becomes 'I'm'.
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'please' halved is 'ple'.
'w'+'ple'='wple'
'wple' enclosing 'im' is 'WIMPLE'.

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(Other definitions for wimple that I've seen before include "A bit of a habit?" , "Nun's headdress in former times" , "In the past, a headdress for some nuns" , "Woman's old headdress, worn by some nuns now" , "Nun's veil" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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