Male Spring Bottoms. What the hell?

[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.

[Ariane]

In asking why this is, it wasn't as you put it, "asking for shorts". But more to posit why, if the dev team is so adamant about never giving males what they consider 'feminine' gear, that they should resort to such indolent and uninspired designs.

Probably because when they do give male characters "feminine" gear, other (more?) people complain. See what happened to the WHM AF. Male characters had pretty much the same AF1 and AF2 for WHM as female characters. People complained, so SE made the AF3 much different between them.

[Nestama]

People complained about the WHM AF1? But that looks very nice on guys (especially Roegadyn). AF2 is a dumpters fire, though.

[Jijifli]

So you must think your knees are disgusting then right? (if you are a guy and not just some sexist guy hating girl).

Also don't diss potato legs.

I was speaking for Square, sorry.

I like my knees. D:

[NovaLevossida]

Words of wisdom:

Play female in every game except Monster Hunter World. Fashion Souls thanks you.

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WTB Kevin Smith huge jorts.

[Oakley]

I definitely agree that males and females should get the same attention to gear. I even imagine it would take less work to make the gear unisex... they actively created two different models for this piece and moulded it to each model rather than just copy/pasting the same short shorts for everyone. Why can't boys have cute clothes too??? I was so disappointed when I saw the girl shorts and knew instantly that the guy version would be worse...

[killstein]

someone on reddit called them medical scrubs and i died. although tbh, their comparison isnt too far off....

just further adds salt to the wound that se decided to give people with male pcs a torn up manderville outfit as an exclusive purchase. but in all honesty i think it's a pretty decent metaphor to show how se cba to give male characters something so simple as a pair of above the knee shorts.

[RiyahArp]

Um..above the knee shorts haven't been in fashion for ages. You can watch any movie from the 70s or 80s to see how ridiculous they can look. Maybe a long, narrower below the knee short with rolled up cuffs would look better, but there's no way an exact copy of the girl's shorts would work well on male characters.

[loreleidiangelo]

Um..above the knee shorts haven't been in fashion for ages. You can watch any movie from the 70s or 80s to see how ridiculous they can look. Maybe a long, narrower below the knee short with rolled up cuffs would look better, but there's no way an exact copy of the girl's shorts would work well on male characters.

Mom jeans on men aren't in vogue either and that's basically what we got.