Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Technology level has nothing to do with how the residents dress – which is very definitely medieval for the most part, and the Skysteel technicians don't dress in "modern" clothing but the ARR gatherer vest-and-shirt. Joye is in a peasant dress; Rostnsthal in his piratey getup. Hilda dresses modern, but she seems an oddity too next to her Brume friends.

Overall, they don't need to dress modern to have modern technology. The innovations in machinery and taste in fashion are not linked.
But it DOES have everything to do with telling us how realistic something is within the world. Garlemald has Trains, Flying Machines, and over all insanely advanced technology, while the Allagans built an entire moon out of spaceships and had.. oh yeah had actual space ships themselves, while the skysteel factory built a fucking robot (Machinist level 80 Ability). So if that is the level of technology we're dealing with a simple car or bike really isn't that hard for anyone, even Eorzea, to make, and if we follow that logic a little further, is a leather jacket/Jeans REALLY that immersion breaking? From where I stand the people making this claim are just clinging onto a high fantasy misconception.