Do we want them? Do we want them to be even more interrelated and interchangable? The current clothed figures are limited, but useful. In a few minutes you can pop a couple figures into a scene, set face poses and tint a skin and clothing textures. Just the ticket for some projects.

The business woman is definitely more clunky to pose, especially the chest/shoulder (not that even the best figures so far do well with extreme shoulder or knee poses). She has multiple layers, so the shirt and pants poke through the jacket (you can use the grouping tool to give different material settings to parts underneath and set them invisible). Casual woman doesn't, and works much better. Sometimes you just can't bother with readjusting clothing.

If P5 clothed figures:

• could use the same face and pose files as a nude version (like P4FemMagicTrio),
• could use the same texture maps for face/skin,
• maybe had a couple simple geometry-swapping trans-mapped hair models,
• had morphs to vary the clothing,
  ...would you use them more? Then again, maybe the cloth technology will make separate clothed figures unnecessary.