I think there should be a chance to damage your clothes when you wring them out with your hands. Making it a risk to wring out your badly damaged pants in case they get ruined.
You should have to empty them out first too, or at least risk damage to the items.
At that point I'd rather the mechanic be removed entirely.
Not everything has to be tuned for maximum realism, especially when it only makes things inconvenient/frustrating.
If there's a chance my badly damaged clothes can get ruined from wringing them out, then I'm simply never going to wring them out. It's not worth that risk.
Having to empty out the clothing first makes sense but would just be annoying, you'd have to re-arrange all of your items again because double clicking LMB just adds the items randomly, or drag them one at a time which is much slower.
When you consider how often it rains in DayZ, I feel like these changes would just add unnecessary busywork without improving the enjoyment of the game at all.
If anything should be changed about this feature it should be adding a sound to it imo, kinda weird that it's completely silent.
Ah well, not every idea is a winner! And it wasn’t a matter of realism, I genuinely like the house keeping mechanics the game has. Removing items would take to far tho.