"I think that some vendors just got lazy"

No, it's more like, Hey, bikini sets sell really well! I'll make one of those! And before long, the MP is glutted with 300 bikini sets, all of which are pretty much interchangeable — and as a result, unless someone is really into bikinis, I doubt many of them sold that well.

The M4 stuff? Yes, sad to say, but lots of dreck out there, stuff that doesnt come close to the attention to detail that folks pour into stuff for the ladies. For the women, you will see every curve followed with almost loving determination and obsession. But pants for Michael? (I mean, forget about getting anything for any other male mesh.) A couple of stovepipes and something at the top to connect them. It's incredibly frustrating to see a vendor that will do stuff for the women that is truly spectacular — but for the guys? Broken seams. Tiled textures. I've said in these fora a couple of times that maybe it's just time for both Poser and DAZ to just give up on male characters. So few people are that interested, so no one's really going to miss them that much when they're finally dead and gone.

And then we can get even more bikini sets!

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