I never said that it would be difficult to change the way the Costume files pointed to the costumes pieces.
And, as you said, it would be tedious.
The main question is, are there things more important that changing the back-end of the costume system, for a change that only switches how the list of costume pieces are viewed, when (most likely) 99.999999999% of the players couldn't care less.
In other words, what would the return of Investment be for that change?
Personally? I'd take that proposal wad it up, and toss it in the fireplace to use as tender.
The RoI for that would be practically non-existent.
Also, as I said before, I don't actually know how the whole costume system works.
What I described in my previous post just seemed logical to me.
However, the original programmers for this game went in some pretty illogical directions.
So, I could very well be (and most likely am) wrong.