"torn clothes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "The hurricane left a trail of destruction, including homes with broken windows and torn clothes in the streets."
One day Mendele appears in his villagein torn clothes.
Children show a concern over dirty hands, torn clothes, and broken cups, suggesting that they appreciate that certain events violate adult standards.
On the cover, the singer models carefully torn clothes the color of highlighter markers, and inside, there's an extraordinary "Note to fans" explaining the change.
If they have torn clothes or dirty feet, I tell them you can wash and repair your clothes there".
Or the carefully scuffed shoes and torn clothes of Charlie Chaplin's tramp from "City Lights"?
Today Orthodox militants punish us for supporting Pussy Riot, threatening our lives and tearing clothes off simple passers-by, and tomorrow they'll go raid churches of other confessions and stab atheists.
They said the men were among as many as 50 in several unruly groups that swarmed around women as they went by, splashing water on them, tearing clothes off their backs and grabbing their breasts and buttocks.
When Poppa Pope tells Olivia to "rend her garments," one can connect the dots to tearing clothes as a an act of mourning.
I had torn my clothes off.
About a dozen corpses lay twisted on stainless steel tables, many victims of recent crime, with no identification, torn up clothes and faces sticky with blood.
