Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
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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.