One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty. – Paul Outerbridge – [Julia Scully, “Seeing pictures”, Modern Photography, Oct. 1976, p. 8]

if the shot is color, you see the clothes — if in B&W, you notice the idea —