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Banded pauldrons

Hiya, I’ve been doing a lot of research on these and I have come to the strange conclusion that females have a different dying pattern. The females dyes cover more parts of the shoulder (notice the gold parts)
<a href=http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/d/dc/Banded_armor_human_female_front.jpg</a>;
Males don’t have this option the only color that changes for us is the little tips of the pauldrons that connect it to our armor.
(had to use a norn here because the human male was dyed differently on the wiki)
<a href=http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/3/3d/Banded_armor_norn_male_front.jpg</a>;
on top of this if you go into the pvp area there are "guild shoulders’ that use the same model as banded and males have the same dye pattern as females there My question to this is why? I would love to have the female dye pattern available for my male character. I hope that maybe one day Arenanet will allow me to do this. I know this isn’t a main issue for them at the moment but I’m just struggling to understand why this choice was made.

Sincerely Araynian