Can a search warrantless search of the clothing of a suspect subject to a search conducted during a patdown of the person's outer clothing?

Whether an officer's suspicion that an object contained within a person's clothing consists of narcotics, derived at least in part from a [37 Cal.App.4th 836] patdown of a person's outer clothing, permits the officer to conduct a full-blown search of the individual or to seize the object felt depends on whether the officer had probable cause to arrest the person for narcotics possession; the warrantless search then becomes justified as a search incident to arrest. (People v. Lee (1987) 194 Cal.App.3d 975, 984, 240 Cal.Rptr. 32.)