My Private Wardrobe Wars
by Kassadee Marie, HSM team writer
Honestly, as much as I love shopping for, styling, and wearing the clothes in Home, I’m starting to hate changing clothes in Home.
This means I probably won’t be buying them any more, or at least, not as many. I think I’ve already cut way back on my clothing expenditures. For one thing, changing in public spaces either takes forever or freezes me altogether. I hate missing any of the conversation by jumping to my Harbor apartment to change and then jumping back to my friends. If you stay where you are to change, you can scroll back and see anything that happened while you were in your wardrobe.
For another thing, it’s a consummate pain to find the older items that I want when there are so many of them and so few ways to sort them.
Presently we have eight divisions under the clothing tab which is under the wardrobe button on the menu screen. These correspond to general body divisions somewhat and are labeled head, hands, torso, legs, feet, jewellery [sic], accessories and outfits. (I originally thought that the outfits category meant, if you bought all the pieces of one outfit, they would each be there to put on all at the same time. Wouldn’t that be great?) These same categories are found under the storage tab. Each of these divisions can be organized two ways. One is to filter items as recently acquired, rewards, purchased, or favorites and the other is to sort them as newest first, last first, or last used. This is all great, as far as it goes. It just doesn’t go far enough.
So here’s my wish list: First, please make changing clothes happen much, much faster.
I don’t have the technical knowledge to even start suggesting how this could be done, but my hope is that my second and third wish list items would help. So second, we really need more sub-categories in both of these divisions, such as “back” for wings and backpacks, “wrists” for bracelets and “necks” for necklaces, ties, towels and scarves. Really, there could be even more than that; we humans have a lot of body parts. How about a “waist” category for belts of our choice? Also, there should always be a choice of right or left hand for rings, bracelets and items held in the hand; so really there should be two hand categories. We have two earring categories, but I’m not sure why. Does anyone wear mismatched earrings? Maybe, after all, this is Home. Yes, I know about the pirate earring and the “feather” earring being single items, not a pair. The other ear could just be without an earring. That’s how I wear these singleton items.
Third on my wish list is the categories of clothes, themselves. We need sub-divisions and a lot of them, just like the real world has.
Under the head category we should have earrings, hairdos (so we never have to go out to character customizing again for this), hats, headphones and halos, which would include all items that float over the head, and under the hands category we could use rings, gloves, nail polish and held items.
Under torso, we need bare torso for males of course, swimsuits, t-shirts, blouses, sweaters/hoodies and jackets/coats, while under the legs category we should have shorts, skirts (kilts for the guys), casual pants/capris and dress pants. The feet category needs the obvious sub-categories of socks, sandals, sneakers, casual shoes, dress shoes, and boots — and the misnamed jewelry category could become a sub-category of head items.
The accessories category already has two sub-categories: face and head. We need a face category for facial hair, glasses, eyes, eye patches and masks, but I think the head sub-category should be included with the other head items in its own main division. In general the outfits category works for one piece items or pieces that fall into more than one body division, such as a dress or pair of coveralls. All of these items should be moved to outfits with some sub-categories here, too. We would need such sub-categories as full-body costumes, dresses or suits, and legs items with feet items attached. (I’m not sure what that would be called.)
One thing we will also need is a miscellaneous category for items that don’t fit elsewhere, such as the butterfly cloud.
I can understand why Sony would not want to deal with having a “delete” button for clothing. They would still have to keep track and be ready to replace items that people deleted accidentally. Yes, people would delete items accidentally, even with a warning, and yes, they would howl if Sony didn’t replace them, even after they were warned. Good customer relations would require the ability for Sony to re-add these items.
Maybe all of this isn’t possible due to memory constraints or another issue, such as the need to re-categorize every clothing item, but I would hope that Sony could make at least some of these changes or other similar changes that have been suggested repeatedly by Home users. If nothing else a “deep storage” category would allow us to separate clothing items that are rarely or never used from those items that we still like to come back to occasionally. They did it once before when they created the original storage and I’d like to say thank-you to them for that. Thanks, Sony. You rock!
September 1st, 2012 by Kassadee Marie | 8 comments
Home is endlessly entertaining to this California girl. Kassadee has been in Home for about four years, and loves almost everything about it (with a few notable exceptions). She spends way too much money there, and perhaps too much time... Someday she will travel the world and write about the people she meets and the places she sees.
The “deep storage” has to happen with clothing and furniture as well. It becomes very frustrating when you buy new things and you get that message that says some stuff has been moved to storage. That means you have to go looking for it to see if it was something you liked. I think a secondary storage area for unused items is a must.
When it comes to categories I agree that there should be more options as well. I have found that the head and face ones are little used, at least by me. There should be one for necklaces for sure, though the “head” necklace recently offered by Sony is a big step in the right direction as it allows us to wear a hand item as well.
I like the idea of having a choice which hand to use for an item, like rings and the like, as you said they do it with earrings, why not hands? And there is a “both ears” category for the earrings area that isn’t really used at all, what’s up with that?
I don’t think they will make the rest too specialized though. Perhaps a few would be nice like neck, and having pants separated from skirts and dresses would be good. They should always make one piece items show only in the outfit section, like dresses, that alone would help. Just having the ability to “deep six” in storage will clear up a lot of issues by itself. Great suggestions Kass.
All good suggestions. I hope they can do some of them. Or better yet, all of them.
nice insight, I agree. I think if the delete option had a couple of steps like “are you sure you want to delete?” step, the delete idea might work, and make our wardrobes much more manageable.
This, Marie, is the exact reason why I love reading your articles. You provide accute points on fashion, and even more so suggestions that I think aren’t at all exaggerated or “impossible” to look into.
I can honestly say, my wardrobe is just huge. i don’t wish for the developers to stop creating such fashions or stunt the growth of the items, but if anything why not just provide a sleeker, easier way to organize our items.
Nicely put together Kass.
Here some categories I would like.
sci-fi ; fantasy ; street wear ; funny/costume
Or should I call them theme or genre?
So we could sort by theme, categories and sub-categories
I could probably write another article about the ways I wish we could sort clothes. How about sorting by color, for one? How about sorting by type of item? Like sorting by “casual clothing” or “holiday outfits”. Well, I can dream big, but I’d appreciate any changes/additions Sony would/could make.
Currently Ill keep 24 outfits that i use the most saved, any changes and get rid of the least used and replace it. I keep the rest in storage. I think we should have a warehouse personal space where we can save our stuff in catorgories, as I have a bunch of female rewards ill never use.