New costume ideas

[Venrox1]

For as long as I can remember, players in CoX have come up with amazing constume ideas. But there are some ideas that just can't be done with what we currently have.  

 

One thing I would love to see are thematic costume sets. I know I know, the character creator sort of has that. But it's also missing alot. I would LOVE to see implemented an Ancient Egyptian set. The clothing/wrist/feet/headwear wore by the ancient pharohs and queens of Egypt. Another I would love to see is a Japanese style with kimono and the proper footwear. I know you've done a Roman style. Let's add Egyptian and casual Japanese to it too!

[srmalloy]

11 hours ago, Venrox1 said:

Another I would love to see is a Japanese style with kimono and the proper footwear.

That opens up an immense can of worms; 'kimono' just means 'thing you wear'; what people commonly refer to as a kimono is commonly a hitatare, kachie, kosode, one of the varieties of ho, hoi, suikan, or kariginu (different garments, not just names), one of the various styles of hakama, and optionally a happi coat, kataginu (in one of that garment's several styles), haori,  jinbaori, or dofuku. Along with this are the specific combinations of garments composing the various types of sugata or the kataginu kamishimo, the latter being what has become the common stereotype of samurai clothing, composed of a kosode with a kataginu and hakama in matching fabric. And this is just men's clothing; women's clothing had different styles and outfit combinations, sometimes sharing names with the men's clothing -- nagabakama, for example, were different for men and women. Picking which garments you're going to implement as costume pieces in game, even ignoring the potential range of patterns and colors worn during the Sengoku and Edo periods (and completely ignoring kasane no irome, the layering of different colors of garments by women to produce specific patterns that varied by season and sometimes by day within a season, with wearing an improper color choice severely impacting a woman's reputation) is a highly complex decision, unless you're going to take the route of doing the same sort of oversimplification as was done with the various 'samurai armor' costume pieces.

 

If you're interested in a deeper dive into Japanese clothing, armor, and related subjects, I refer you to the Sengokudaimyo website, originally started by the late Anthony J. Bryant as a resource for members of the SCA interested in creating a Japanese persona.

Edited April 9 by srmalloy
correcting grammar failure

[srmalloy]

11 hours ago, Venrox1 said:

Another I would love to see is a Japanese style with kimono and the proper footwear.

And 'proper footwear' is another fairly wide target, although not so much as clothing is. Besides the stereotypical geta, which were worn for specific purposes and by specific social groups, you had waraji, woven straw sandals (for which the existing Roman sandals make a decent substitute, zori, slip-on straw sandals that became 'flip-flops' when soldiers brought them back from Japan after the end of WWII and the style caught on, jika-tabi, which were originally outdoor footwear from which the more recent tabi sock evolved, and okobo, thick wooden sandals worn by young girls and apprentice geisha.

[FrozenSolid]

Some (potentially) Japanese styled clothing does exist in the game, aside from the samurai sets... But they seem to be limited to pants on a Male character and the Sandals option on Female ones.