Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
帅 has 巾, a cloth hung at the waist, as its meaning part. The empty 师 without 帀 once showed two hands grabbing cloth. It first meant a cloth women tied at the waist; the sense to lead an army was borrowed for sound, then grew to commander and handsome.
Drawn as: two hands grabbing cloth
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