It’s 2021 now and we still do not have Race Restrictions REMOVED from Hempen Clothes

[GrizzlyTank]

Again, no. Neither set even makes the bottoms specially accommodate Miqo’te or Au Ra tails, which is one of the defining features of both races.

If there were specific things that tied the hempen sets into the racial starting gear to make them inherently X-race-esque, maybe there would be a point to locking them. But as it is now, nothing about them makes them “special enough” to be racially locked.

And even then they could have gone the GW2 route where the set is the same for all races except that tailed races got unique adornment covering the tail, no actual restrictions on who can wear what (outfit wise, normal armors in GW2 got an issue with seams which is why you can't mix light/medium/heavy).

It's like how Sam and Monk share gear ... these are 2 VERY different styles/ aesthetics that these 2 jobs go for so things can often (most of the time ..) look baaaad on 1 and fit the other.

Both also got job specific outfits no other jobs can wear. And either issues could be resolved easily by... removing arbitrary glamour restrictions.