Ever since Seasons, I've noticed Sims from played households have sometimes been wearing random (and usually awful) outfits that I didn't give them when they're acting as NPCs (wandering the neighborhood when I'm working with a different household). In my created/played households, I meticulously plan every outfit for every character. It's annoying to see them wandering around wearing a ridiculous jumble of clothes that I know I didn't create. Is this some kind of bug in the Seasons pack? If so, I hope they fix it soon.

If you haven't changed the 'hot weather' and 'cold weather' outfits for those sims yet, that might be what you're seeing.

I find mine do it too. It's silly.

I've noticed that they dress in stupid outfits for holidays. Did it happen to be a holiday? They particularly like to wear Santa hats and red coats for Winterfest, and those ridiculous top hats for New Year's.

I customize every outfit, including hot and cold weather outfits, and it's wasn't a holiday when I wrote this. The outfit was crazy. Green & white pompom beanie, big orange glasses, a blue winter coat (in summer), cat leggings, pink floral socks and brown hiking boots. I'd never dress my sims like that. It would make a clown cringe. I know she was one I carefully customized because she's the mom in the family I most recently played previously.

Before Seasons, my Played Sims would wear what I gave them, regardless of the occasion. If it was a formal event, or a party/festival, they would wear the outfit I planned out. Now it's just all over the place. This is especially irritating because some of my families have been going to the Gallery. I put a lot of time and effort into their appearance and outfit. Some Sims I've spent an hour and a half getting just right. I see that mess and it feels like it was all just flushed away.

Why Are My Sims Putting On Random Outfits?

30 Replies

pinneduphair
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
If you haven't changed the 'hot weather' and 'cold weather' outfits for those sims yet, that might be what you're seeing.
mariefoxprice83
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I find mine do it too. It's silly.
HeidiGrrrl
New Hotshot
7 years ago
I've noticed that they dress in stupid outfits for holidays. Did it happen to be a holiday? They particularly like to wear Santa hats and red coats for Winterfest, and those ridiculous top hats for New Year's.
iamsweetmystery
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I customize every outfit, including hot and cold weather outfits, and it's wasn't a holiday when I wrote this. The outfit was crazy. Green & white pompom beanie, big orange glasses, a blue winter coat (in summer), cat leggings, pink floral socks and brown hiking boots. I'd never dress my sims like that. It would make a clown cringe. I know she was one I carefully customized because she's the mom in the family I most recently played previously.
SimTresa
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Mone have some strange ideas of what a costume is when I'm not playing them. One girl was spotted wandering the neighborhood in what looked like one of her every day outfits plus a winter pompom hat and white gloves. The outfit was a tank and shorts ona cold day.
iamsweetmystery
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Before Seasons, my Played Sims would wear what I gave them, regardless of the occasion. If it was a formal event, or a party/festival, they would wear the outfit I planned out. Now it's just all over the place. This is especially irritating because some of my families have been going to the Gallery. I put a lot of time and effort into their appearance and outfit. Some Sims I've spent an hour and a half getting just right. I see that mess and it feels like it was all just flushed away.
iamsweetmystery
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
It seems this happens in small ways to Sims currently being played as well. My Sim was on a Spa date and got a massage. While she was on the massage table, I noticed she had on that eyeball ring that I never use (because it's seriously tacky and I hate it.) It's not part of her outfit, I checked. She had to have put it on with the massage robe.
kaeyresky
7 years ago
There's a situation outfit added by seasons for when sims are walking by in the rain. I'm not sure if there are others (from seasons). These types of outfits will just pull clothes randomly from a category and put them on the sims who are walking by.
The devs haven't shown any sign that they consider these outfits to be bad or undesirable in any way so my hopes for their removal are low. They've been doing this with City Living clothes for almost two years now so.. yeah.
iamsweetmystery
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Maybe if they get the hint that players are annoyed with it, eventually they'll do something. Also, I figure it's low on their list of priorities if they know already and ever do intend to fix it. There are other, more damaging bugs and other problems, and large-scale programming takes time. I just try to be patient but not silent. Posts like this let them at least know there's an issue.
Cinebar
7 years ago
My Sims were doing this sort of thing since CL.