Vanity isn't just for the rich!

[BreathlessTao]

Maybe the two OP examples are not the best, but in general - yes, vanity stuff is just insanely gated behind way too high level crafting (and/or gathering). When in all honesty, it should be something fun and at least partially easily available. But yes, there are no easily available counterparts. I understand the need to try to make crafting (and gathering) useful, but this just isn't the right way to do that.

And it's even more annoying when the vanity gear is seasonal - summer gear for the most part still being sold for ridiculous amounts of gil (seriously, would you pay 10 or more percent of a house (well the plot but you get the analogy) to get an item that's not good for anything but visuals? - and that's a medium sized plot, it's even more insane when compared to the price of a small), some of the coeurl set still doesn't even have a sale history on Shiva, meaning nobody's even got to the point where they'd put them up for sale there. It's mind-boggling.

And while at it: why does HQ version of such items even exist?? By that logic, we should be able to make HQ furniture too, for example...where it's nicely solved that it doesn't exist.