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

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@reivaxe — Except the hempen gear does not racially define any of the races. There is nothing about any of them that makes them inherently Hyuran or Miqo’te or Au Ra or whatever. They are underwear sets that existed in 1.0 and were ported over as is with the rest of the gear from that time. But they have never been what defined the races, or even the culture surrounding the races.

This is factually wrong.
I'm by no means a lore expert but for the time I was a Highlander I did learn a thing or two about them and "With a spiritual tradition dating back to times of yore, Highlanders are known to sport wood-carved talismans woven into their underclothes". This is reflected in them legit having a wooden talisman in their hempen top for both genders.

Now, is that true for every other group? IDK, don't know their lore and never looked into it. To me it's likely partly an aesthetics choice to enhance and promote the traits they based the races upon ... like them thinking that FemRoe underwear should look like a wrestle's could be because they're the biggest, buffest race/ Elezen having the classy, elegent underwear cause they're the elegant ones/ Lala having modest, cute underwear cause they're the lil cute people or Draggo girls having a teddy nightwear to play up and enhance or push the fact that they're based on succubus and Jpop idols.
These are all valid reasons to do this seeing as, again, the concept is to play up the themes and aesthetics unique to them. But at the VERY least Highlander underwear is based on their cultural lore.