Elected to wear fancy stripes — not quite original (8)
I believe the answer is:
pristine
'original' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'elected to wear fancy stripes not quite' is the wordplay.
'elected' becomes 'in'.
'to wear' means one lot of letters goes inside another (to wear something is to be covered up by it).
'fancy' is an anagram indicator.
'not quite' means to remove the first letter.
'stripes' with its first letter removed is 'tripes'.
'tripes' is an anagram of 'priste'.
'in' going into 'priste' is 'PRISTINE'.
(Other definitions for pristine that I've seen before include "Pure - tire spin (anag)" , "Virgin" , "Immaculately clean, unused or untouched" , "ancient" , "Spotless" .)