Xurge has been making clothing primarily for males for a decade (or more). Sure, his site has quite a few outfits for V4, but I'm pretty sure he started making models for Mike (i have some of his earlier stuff -- all for M2) and probably made stuff for the girls because people asked for it. Most of his outfits are still mostly for male figures.

But, indeed, he's not with a brokerage. So I don't know if that makes a difference.

As I've said before, I expect that a huge number of customers are women who want to render women, many times fantasy versions of their ideal self, hence the skimpy clothing (and the faeries and unicorns). Add the guys who like female pinups and that's a big base of customers.

After all, I'm sure it isn't the male customers who are demanding 15 different fingernail colors in a character packet. So my guess is that women's preferences are just as big a force driving the market.

It would also explain the feminine looking male characters, since a lot of women seem to prefer that type. [I'm not one of them -- I like all types, except the smelly ones..] Also, a great many of the texture resources will be from male MODELS, many of whom may shave their body hair and pluck their eyebrows because that's what's expected in the industry. So the characters from those textures will reflect this tendency. And no matter whatever else you do, plucked eyebrows will always look quite feminine.

In any case, it's true that it gets old looking at "What's new?" and seeing the same stuff over and over and over again.  But when I actually want to buy something, I search through the back catalogs in all of the major marketplaces, and I generally find what I'm looking for these days. There's LOTS of ordinary clothing for women and men out there. It just doesn't stay on the front page for long and you have to dig for it.

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