Little Ladies's Day

[reivaxe]

It's simple really, people have gotten so used to not being allowed to wear pieces it is actually a surprise people like when they show off Viera/Hrothgar wearing them.

Well played SE, but you can't fool me mwahahahahahahahaha.

They actually go out of their way to show them wearing the head gear they can wear when new sets are added.
The new PvP gear showed off both Viera and Hrothgar wearing mask on the official spread, in one of the recent dev streams they used Hrothgar and Viera to show off the Pld and healer gear cause the head gear wasn't hats, Hrothgar is the ranged DPS in the official spread for the tome gear for 5.2
Feels strange that I have a better understanding of what to expect for head gear for these races than people who main them.

Yes, but event gear is often locked so it seems like a 50/50 chance.

Also, last year's daisy crowns were essentially gender-locked by giving us one item with two different appearances.

It's not a 50/ 50 if you apply any bit of logic to it.
Even your example of daisy crowns doesn't work here. Yeah, the other gender gets a different type of daisy crown. But it's still a daisy crown, not a highly gendered thing 1 way or another. It's not like dudes get a face mask or something else that's completely unrelated instead.

There's no logical connection between a flower hair pin and a monocle.

They could have made these headpieces one item and forced its appearance change based on gender, which still happens frequently, so I'm very happy they didn't do that with these regardless of how similar they might be to existing alternatives.

They've gendered sandals in the past.

Are the gendered Sandals still sandals between the genders or are they turned into combat boots?
And again, there's no logical connection between these 2 items.


Feel like this obsession over gender and head gear is a meme at this point, we all know good and well that Viera aren't getting Hats or helms but we also know they can wear anything that's not a hat or helm.
And yes, they make design changes between gender on items. But there wouldn't be any reason to think a flower hair pin becomes a monocle on a male... when every flower hair pin in the game works on both genders (the only gendered Monocle that I can think of is the Char glam on the mog site which are always gendered)

Anyway, on the topic, I like that you can dye these so that I don't have grow flowers to get different colors of the same flower.