Male Spring Bottoms. What the hell?

[AmemeAmeklin]

This movement for male short shorts should have a mascot to grab the attention of the devs. I propose you adopt Godbert Manderville as your mascot, gentlemen! For muscle is what makes a man, and clothing should not hold you back from showing off your manliness the way only a Manderville man can!

[BillyKaplan]

This movement for male short shorts should have a mascot to grab the attention of the devs. I propose you adopt Godbert Manderville as your mascot, gentlemen! For muscle is what makes a man, and clothing should not hold you back from showing off your manliness the way only a Manderville man can!

See Godbert even existing baffles me. The guy runs around most of the time in the nude, if he bothers to wear anything he doesn't even wear pants at all, he wears a dress-esque piece for the Starlight events, and there's an entire questline - yes, a questline where you need to repeatedly apply salamander oil on his body, and then this is revisited in the Hildy quests when you need to do the same for his son. But giving guys pants that don't cover from waist to ankle somehow makes them too uncomfortable to implement.

[DreadRabbit]

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Heck we already have subligars and other "underwear" dudes run around in already anyway. So if you don't give the crowd that wants to show off their legs more options they'll just run around in those more. If the dev team was wanting to avoid that they're already too late.

Personally I feel like this is less a "men showing skin" issue as it is a potential styling issue. They probably had a specific look in mind for the male Spring set as the shirt looks somewhat dressy, so they might have thought it would look odd with shorts (at least at the length male shorts tend to normally be). Thus pants instead. A lot of the sets in this game feel that way.

That doesn't make it right though. They could have given both genders a choice between pants and shorts and let us decide. Because how I would like to dress a guy and how the guys on the dev team think men should dress are potentially two very different styles.