Originally Posted by
Iscah
It would be a bit stranger to just instantly change outfit as we jump in and out of water though – you wear swimwear the whole time you're at the beach, and you don't change clothes just to randomly swim across a river and get out again, so it's a lot more situational. Probably more taxing on the game system too, since it would be more like direct glamouring, out in the field and as an overlay to our actual gear, which is something they couldn't manage to implement with the glamour plates.
(Overall I think that's something easier managed manually by the player, and I do keep a set of beach clothes on hand for that reason. Not that it sees much use beyond fifteen minutes a year running Moonfire quests.)
The inn cutscenes have a clear break from gameplay to the cutscene, and I think it handles the character in a different way to live gameplay. There have been a few cutscenes over time where we see our character wearing things we didn't equip, but the only time it's happened in gameplay (to my knowledge) is the Grand Melee which was hedged by cutscenes either side and not changing spontaneously, so I think it was just made to apply when our character was loaded into that particular solo instance.