Morkonan posted at 6:43PM Tue, 21 November 2017 - #4317054

In regards to male-clothing sales appeal, IMO: The reason that some male clothing items don't sell well might be due to limited variability in what men actually wear. If you have a pair of pants and a shirt, you're considered just about "fully dressed" if you'r a guy. :)

So, for a complete, basic, wardrobe for a standard male figure, what do you need? Long pants, short pants, long-sleeve dress shirt, a knit shirt, some underwear if necessary, a pair of sock and, perhaps, two different sets of shoes.

There, done. With a paint program, you can make those look different, even appear to be of different types of materials, with very, very, little effort. One can even make decent shorts from a pair of long pants only using a transmap.

Women's clothing, as any man who's had a girlfriend or wife knows, is as varied as the flowers in a field... So, modelers can really get creative and can use many, many, different real-world examples as inspiration. All the while, a man's "knit shirt" remains... a knit shirt.

I was going to say something similar... That the same genres of clothing aren't as popular for men as for women. But if you are determined to sell male clothing maybe the key is to think outside of the fantasy/sci-fi box. When I have looked I have been surprised at the lack of real world clothing; business professional, office casual, typical white and blue collar attire. Where are the mechanics and construction workers, the road crews, the moving men, the delivery drivers? There are lots of cheesy rock and rollers, but what about big band or jazz era clothing? Make military uniforms, make street clothing for various sub-cultures (mods, rude boys, punks, etc.), and every sport from soccer to rodeo riding has associated styles. Where are the nerds and dorks, the metro- and lumbersexuals? I think the real takeaway is that no one wants to make the male clothing people would actually buy because it is more likely to be boring real-world stuff.