Request to unlock Hempen set styles

[Pomelo]

Sadly the Hyur NPC's wearing the Elezen Hempen body piece were already present at the launch of the Return to Ivalice questline, about what, half a year ago? While I wish it would mean that this is finally happening, I'm getting pretty frustrated with the teasing.

I mean, clearly you CAN make these different hempen pieces work on other races. Why show us this but not let us have access to it? Is it really worth hand-crafting an entirely new outfit for random NPC's that you know has been heavily requested, but deny our player characters the ability to wear it?

They take ages for things like this. Male Bunny suit took literally years.

[Bellsong]

Well you may see very little reason but there are many of us who think diversity and racial differences are a good thing and it appears the development team understands there are two camps on this issue pro and against.

Look at cultural armor from GW2, those sets have good reason to be race locked as they have a lot of meaning design wise to their races, not only that but with more unique body shapes it makes sense that GW would have more trouble than FF fitting sets to other bodies. and further more there's still armor based around those races available freely to all races via dungeon armor.

There's nothing wrong with wanting diversity in racial armor sets, but locking casual culturally insignificant clothing/underwear behind races is just dumb. There's a reason people don't complain about GC/hunt armors being locked to certain GCs (Besides being able to freely switch between them so it's not much of an issue to use them) .They also hold a lot of significance to the faction itself design and color wise. Not race locked but it's a fairly good example of how to build diversity in armor without sacrificing generic casual pieces of clothing.

It's easy for a lot of people to disregard and even think people who want to keep the hempen and camise sets locked are wrong because a lot of you want to keep them not for cultural importance (which they lack) but instead just because they're the last few bits of glamour race locked.

The only sets that seem even slightly culturally important to races are the starter sets, but even those have problems because it looks like the same tailor made all of them, and again they're filled with fairly casually looking clothing bits, for example: Miqo skirt, it's a personal favorite but I prefer playing Highlander's/Roegadyn's.

I for one enjoy diversity as well, but I also heavily care about how it's implemented. and SE's implementing of it here was not out of care or intent it was just a product of it's time when they didn't care about glamour and just wanted to get the game out.

Just my two cents. I think the game is better off unlocking the hempen and starter sets and instead give us better culturally important armor

[SummonerSenah]

Quite the opposite. I actually think it is non-miqo'te wanting the miqo'te top. I know I'd wear that.

Guilty. I haven't found anything that looks similar enough on an Au Ra but there's no way I'm going to change back to Miqo'te for just one shirt.

So yes I'd love to have all the hempen styles unlocked, but I would also settle for them designing something identical but that Au Ra could wear; which, isn't that technically the same thing? Either they unlock the current styles for everyone or they design more clothes with the same exact appearance.

[Joujien]

Still very much so in favor of this!

[Anatha]

What are you talking about? Racial armor in guild wars 2 is NOT racially locked.

[Celef]

The idea that limiting everyone increases diversity is absurd in itself.

In Elder Scrolls Online, you can wear any variant of any race's gear on any character, and that fact doesn't hurt the roleplay or immersion of that game at all. I don't see how unlocking hempen styles for this game for all races would hurt anyone, especially considering how basic they are in design.

Indeed, plus, if we talk about RP, in most of the cities we can meet every races, would not be so weird to imagine that someone from one race would like and wear the fashion from another.
The same goes for hairstyles

[Rezael]

These restrictions should be removed. On the hempen parts, on the hairstyles, even the starting gear. Any piece that is race, or gender, restricted should be fixed to be usable by any players choice of race & gender combination.

[Magic-Mal]

[Selova]

Please give us female Hyur's (Yes i know im a rare species) the visuals of the hempen camise and pantalettes for miqotes, the top especially looks pretty terrible in comparison to it's miqote counterpart. I'm always jealous when i see a female miqote in them because it looks amazing and goes well with so many glamour pieces. Please make this happen.

[Solarra]

Still waiting for this to happen.
There is a cute ruffled skirt that disappears when worn with 99% percent of tops in the game; I'd love to wear it, but since I don't want to pair it with a bikini-top or a tiny blouse that just covers the essentials, I'm out of luck. Unlocking the underwear designs would solve this problem and give everyone more choice.

If the devs decided to make a set of 'basics' available at the Boutique as a reward from the fashion challenge, I'd be over the moon.
If they were thinking of doing something like this (and it's been so long since the official response that I'm starting to lose hope), then it would be really nice to have these tops without the undyeable parts or the huge white stitches that are on some of them (fem Roe top being a glaring example). However, since a redesign is probably asking too much, a simple unlock would suffice.