The Sims Complete Collection: Limited Clothing Options?

@SnarkyWitch , Actually, the life stages for Sims 2 are Baby, Toddler, Child, Teenager, (Young adult only at University if you have University), Adult and Elder.

You have to "buy" additional outfits at clothing stores to have multiple choices for each type of outfit and some outfits will be the same for certain age groups (like Teens, Young Adults and Adults) and do not carry over for each life stage. So if for example you have two adult females in the household and purchase a particular dress for one of them, both sims can wear that same dress. Elders have a limited selection of clothing in game. This is unlike Sims 3 and 4 where you can have multiple outfits for each type (Every day, formal, sleepware, outdoor ware, etc) and the sim randomly chooses one each day or time when they change clothes. You need to go to the various clothing stores in game to purchase additional clothes. 

If you are talking about the original game, you are correct there are only three life stages baby/child, Adult and Elder. And the Sims don't age. I believe you had to purchase outfits as well, but it's been a while since I've played the original game. 

Just an update: I found a modded end table for this game that will allow me to cycle through and select the full range of clothing options in Live Mode which has worked perfectly for my story. 🙂

@SnarkyWitch , wonderful!

This is a stretch but does anyone know of any good access tools? Also, I correctly placed my skin mods and followed multiple guides but none of the skins seem to appear in my game. Items do. But skins and outfits dont. Any solution to a problem from a game twenty four years ago? lol

Four years late but I'd like to answer that this likely happened because they were two different body types. Barring any custom downloaded meshes/skins that used their own special body type (for instance, there were some "XXL" custom body types (often more flattering and/or realistic ones) that gained traction in Sims 1 creator circles that had custom body type codes), the Maxis body types for adults in the original game are skinny (skn, incidentally also the file ending for one of the skin file types, but this would be part of the file NAME), fit (fit), and fat (fat). (Children have one Maxis body type: chd.) In CAS, you have all of them to choose from, but once you save the family, the body type is locked in and unless you're using certain objects or external programs that let you set to a different outfit that's a different body type, the options you'll see are only from the body type the Sim is at that exact point you looked.

It's very likely that the Sim with less options was in a fat or skinny outfit (so only able to see FAfat or FAskn skins) and the Sim with more had a fit outfit on (only able to see FAfit). Fit tends to have WAY more options (both vanilla AND in terms of what you're likely to come across with downloaded skins.