I'd agree a gender locked hat is silly. And, I don't really see why guys can't wear dresses in this game. I only wish if they did do that, that they'd re-tailor the dresses to be more flattering to their bodies (I'm picturing a strapping large rogdelyn dude in a small tight dress :x He might need it fixed a bit...) And maybe remove bra part of the dress, cause well, it's not supporting anything. Maybe make the top like show off his muscles instead... iono I only say this cause in WoW they didn't gender lock dresses and male orcs looked pretty unflattering in them.

Maybe doing such a thing "stylishly" is hard. But don't they lock us into other roles in this game anyway? Black Mages can't dress up in heavy armor and etc? I think it's more than gender roles we are talking about here. I agree more expression would be good though, but the designers can only do so much at once. Since girls can wear suits, I think making dresses for guys would be fine. Hildibrand wore one.