It's been 5 years, can we remove the job restriction on glamours?

[Bellsong]

And then you'd see a "please race unlock" thread for those every once in a while like the hempen sets. This thread in itself is proof the playerbase wants options and freedom of choice, not more restrictions.

You're right, people would ask, but it would be reasonable and easy to argue that there's reason for the armor to be locked to that race if it was actually designed with that races culture and even body shape in mind.
You don't see threads about unlocking GC gear for all GC's, or (as far as I know) threads on the GW2 side about cultural armor being unlocked, or requests for heritage sets to be open in great amounts like with the hempen sets here.

Because if designed well within the games lore the armor has reason to be racially locked. (GW2 also got around this in a clever way by making dungeon armor that can be worn by all with the same themes of the cultural armor)

The hempen sets especially and the starter sets to a lesser degree suffer from that fact that they are in no way culturally significant to the races they're locked too. Why is the starter Miqo skirt special to miqo? Why is the elezen hempen top special to them? They aren't, in fact a lot of the start sets and hempen gear look as if the same group of tailors made the gear, And with such a lack of body diversity between the playable races of the game it makes less sense that the clothing can't be adapted to others. That's a pretty large part of the reason I at least argue for them to be unlocked.

But the important thing is that it would be armor, not just clothing. That's why I think blizz and arenanet got away with racially locked gears in their games, simply because there were always alternatives with a similar look and theme, and that it was carefully designed armor and not just basic common clothing.

This thread and request also makes sense because we can already level everything anyways, why can't we mix and match as well? I would argue that things should stay locked if we could only do one class per character, but it doesn't make a lot of sense that not holding certain weapons means you can't wear certain common armors. The only exception that should be made are artifact armors because they have heavy significance to the Job and not just the weapon type you're holding, which is something people generally seem to agree on.

As long as there's something locked, people will always ask for it to be unlocked, but depending on how reasonable the lock is those request will gain and hold less or more of a following. And people have made it clear they do like and want more or better diversity between races, and I think it's okay to have it as long as it's designed with care and intent unlike the starter and hempen gear.