Bugged every day outfits. Unable to fix.
I'm not sure this should be a bug report or not since I have no idea what caused it. So making a good bug report with some bit of information on how to replicate this bug is not something we've figured out yet. We're trying though!
First off, we had mods and CC, All had been working relatively well until we got the Get Famous expansion pack. I'm not sure that caused it, but around that time our every day outfits became messed up. We didn't think much about it, even found it kind of funny until we realized that going into CAS to fix the bugged outfits didn't actually fix it...and it affected all of our SIMS in the saves going back several days on all of their every day outfits.. Ouch.
So the bug is this. No matter what outfit we have in the Every Day slot #1, changing into that outfit will change our characters into an outfit that's just the default bra, 1 bracelet and 1 necklace. No undies, no pants, no shirt. If we look at the Change Outfit menu after this we see the mostly naked outfit there. If we switch to any other outfit category though, the outfit we actually have in Every Day slot one shows properly again in the change outfit list. If we go into CAS the outfit displays properly there too. If we use SimRipper to extract our character the outfit displays properly there as well.
If we add more outfits to the every day category they are all affected by this problem just sometimes with slightly different results like maybe a hat or another accessory in addition to the usual 2 accessories.. If we have in slot #1 an outfit that we want to wear, and in slot #2 an outfit that's a full outfit with accessories and all of that switching to outfit #1 just wears the bugged bra, bracelet and necklace, but switching to outfit #2 may have that same bra, necklace and bracelet but may also have another bracelet, painted nails, a hat or glasses from another outfit.
For what it's worth the bracelet and necklace that ends up on all of the every day outfits is from an old outfit that we deleted from our outfits a long time ago (Wasn't CC either). I think it may have been in our career outfits.
We've tried removing all CC and Mods and the issue still was there. We've redone all of the outfits in a game with no mods or CC then saved that game to a new save file and the issue is still there. We removed the TheSims folder in our Documents section so the game could recreate it, let the game recreate it again, then put our save file that was saved with no CC or Mods present back in and the issue was still there for that save file and other recent save files that were affected..
I've removed that cache file in the main directory, I've used the EA Desktop app recovery thing (not sure what that actually did though), and can't do the repair through Origin since we can't use the game through Origin, only through EA Desktop since we're on Game Pass.
Using MCCC to import a sim from the gallery copying the appearance and outfits over one of our existing sims doesn't fix it either. I've tried another outfit tool to overwrite slot #1 in the every day category with a working outfit from a different category and that didn't fix it. I've tried that same tool to checkids and fix duplicate ids in our outfits. I've used the tool to fix the bathing suit just in case that was an issue..
This does not affect any outfits other than the every day outfit as far as we've seen. It also doesn't affect any new sims we create in that world that we've seen or older save files before we got Get Famous though we're not sure if that expansion caused this or if one of the mods we used did somehow or getting sloppy with a outfits.copy_outfit console command caused this.
I'm out of ideas on what went wrong or how it can be fixed. Is there a way to open the save file in some kind of editor to try to track this down? I opened it in Sim 4 Studio but didn't see anything for the characters in there, though I may have just missed it. Is there a way to delete all outfits on our sims without losing everything else just setting the outfits some defaults? Or does anyone have any ideas what can be done? I don't want us to lose so many days of progress and building without at least knowing what caused this bug so we can make sure it doesn't happen again.
I do have videos showing this as well as screenshots, but since it includes some barbie-doll like nudity (nothing there but still no undies) i'm not sure if it's OK to post them here. Also sorry for the length of this, I didn't want to leave anything out that might be helpful.