so i was looking in the market place and seen a player selling a suit with like 1k animal lore and other stuff but what i am wondering is how o u add skills to clothes and armor?

Certain pieces of armor and weapons can be "socketed" up to five times and then augments can be added using the arms lore skill. You can get socket scrolls from treasure chests and BODS and I'm sure other places. If you look at most players carrying a shield you will see that it is socketed with 4x +5 parry and has shield of spikes. Those are the 5 augments that were socketed to this shield. This is pretty end game stuff though because it is SO expensive. Sockets run around 50 ED each or 5 mil and depending on the augment it can be just as expensive if not worse. You might get a deal here and there but as a general rule of thumb adding +25 parry to an item(which is pretty common) costs around 50 mil or 500 ED. I am pretty sure that the wiki will have good information on this topic because it has not changed a whole lot, but I hope you find this low level explanation at least a little helpful. 

Certain pieces of armor and weapons can be "socketed" up to five times and then augments can be added using the arms lore skill. You can get socket scrolls from treasure chests and BODS and I'm sure other places. If you look at most players carrying a shield you will see that it is socketed with 4x +5 parry and has shield of spikes. Those are the 5 augments that were socketed to this shield. This is pretty end game stuff though because it is SO expensive. Sockets run around 50 ED each or 5 mil and depending on the augment it can be just as expensive if not worse. You might get a deal here and there but as a general rule of thumb adding +25 parry to an item(which is pretty common) costs around 50 mil or 500 ED. I am pretty sure that the wiki will have good information on this topic because it has not changed a whole lot, but I hope you find this low level explanation at least a little helpful.

thanks a ton for the info it's amazing how fast you guys resopnd

You are welcome, community grows as we help each other 

Thanks lysanthir

 I had not known the following to be true:

 

One more thing about socketing skill augments; each item can have a total of 5 lines + skill bonus. So, basically, if the item has naturally 2 different skill bonuses (for example a ring with +10 animal taming and +10 animal lore) you can only socket 3 more skill augments (like 3 x +5 animal lore).
 I haven't tried it yet though (since it is a waste) but I think it is POSSIBLE to socket more, it just won't have/show the skill bonuses after the 5th.