The Armoire Update

[SalamanderIX]

The armoire is superior to the glamour dresser, and the systems supposedly work completely differently.
If i recall right, the glamour dresser is like an "instance", whereas the armoire is not. that's why the glamour dresser can't be in a house and you can't access the plates in combat instances.

Perhaps in the future, we can move all glamour into the Armoire, and the glamour dresser can save the dyed versions, and create the glamour plates, but not actually store gear. That could be the best we could hope for in the current game (unless ffxiv is remade into a new engine).