Quote Originally Posted by GeminiReed View Post
The point was that a beach themed event has been real light on bikini parts in the past few years.

I get it. Players that have been here since 2013 have gotten several but thanks to Square's addiction to FOMO many are unobtainable without throwing down RL cash and the older ones are stupidly expensive off the market board. I'm also well aware that it's not to everybody's taste but then neither are the cropped pants.

Making event glamours a zero-sum game is not fair to those of us who had the temerity to not have played since 1.0.
The issue is not so much "getting another bikini" as "getting another split-gender piece where it's assumed that female characters should wear bikinis and male characters should wear shorts".

Also, while I do realise each design is unique in its details, there's a lot less room for variation in a bikini-sized amount of cloth versus full shorts.

I don't know what you mean by "making it a zero-sum game". I just want the option for my female character to wear those shorts. I'd settle for a skirt with the same length and print, even. Just not an expectation to wear the bikini.