@CarpeNocheSims @MoonlightGraham One of the biggest problems right now is the lack of diversity in styles. The quality of the meshes is really good, in some cases almost cc quality, but it always the same types garments. We have plenty of crop tops, cargos, hiking boots, and ripped jeans. I can lob the crop top criticism straight at the cc community too. I look at my cc collection and it's heavily slanted towards crop tops, but that's what is being produced and I never gave it any thought. I became blind to what was right in front of my face.
I sort of blocked it out of my mind until I started seeing it commented about on here and I took a step back and realized, yeah we are oversaturated with those items Those are great for stylish young adult females, but it would be nice to have better tees and blouses too. Most of the tees have this skater skirt flared hem that is really off-putting. But that's because creators can't seem to break out of this mindset that women's tops have to conform to our curves. From the under-bust down most tees, tunics, and such don't hug a woman's body, they hang loose but a lot of meshes try to have too much emphasis on highlighting waistlines.
Ripped jeans on men haven't been very common around where I live since the early-2000's. It's more faded, stonewashed effect, but whoever is deciding on these things in game is stuck in the past. I do love to give my ladies some ripped body hugging jeans as part of a super casual outfit, if it fits their personality. I choose fashions for my sims mostly on that basis, some on the weather, but I don't take rural or urban into account too much. Now that I think about it urban/rural isn't a big consideration for me because my sims are 99.9% urban right now. My werewolves are about the only ones who don't live in any urban world like San Myshuno, DSV, of even Tartosa. Tartosa is probably more vacation/resort versus urban area, but since it's not centered around nature like Granite Falls or Selvadorado I think of it as urban.
