Oh, I guess I would be a visitor to CBP and that would simplify everything. I don't intend to leave much of my stuff in the US.
It is not about not wanting to bring clothing, it is about not wanting to bring a detailed list of what clothing I bring with me, in what amount and in what value.
I expect to arrive with some of my personal valuable electronics. Some of it fairly new. Smartphone, one or two tablets, headphones. No intent to sell or leave them in the US however. Reasonable amount of clothing for the first days, most of it not new, but in good state so it could be insinuated it is new.
As you're coming to the country as a visiting non-immigrant and it's a reasonable presumption that most all of what you're bringing to the US -- including used clothes and commonly used day-to-day used electronics -- will leave with you from the US when you leave, most commonly you won't be expected to have declared the value of the used clothes and other used items which you're going to leave with when you leave the US too.
Even as a returning American at US ports of entry a huge number of times, I too have to declare some items at times at US ports of entry. But I've never had used clothes be the issue at US ports of entry. Nor even used consumer electronics at US ports of entry, although I can see electronics being an issue for some people at times.