There are definitely a lot of oddities in the new system. Through a lot of experimentation I discovered the following:

-If the update gearset button, is lit (meaning unsaved), it breaks the portrait:


-Even if the gearset IS updated, you must save the portrait after it IS updated in order to apply the portrait.

-If the gearset is tied to a glamour plate, the gearset MUST match the glamour plate exactly in order for the portrait to be applied. If you remove a glamour-plate link to a job, this prevents it from breaking and as long as you click update on the gear set and save on the new portrait, it will not break.



-If you equip a new set of gear, then apply the associated glamour plate, and then hit 'Update Gear Set' this entirely breaks the portrait entirely. The only way to fix this is to alter the portrait in some way and save the new portrait (i.e. go into portrait settings, maybe alter the light or angle by a value of 1, and save the portrait again)

-Interestingly enough, if you equip a new set of gear, then update the gear set, switch to another gearset, then switch back to let the glamour auto-apply, it doesn't break the system.

Any way you cut it, the system is REALLY janky though and definitely needs bugs hammered out.