what bothers many of us about skimpy outfits is not that they exist, but mainly 2 issues:
-when most of the female outfits or armor is skimpy, you’re taking options away from them, you can only be sexy, and many girls don’t want to only look sexy. So, more options is better.
-males don’t really get many skimpy outfits or armor choices (I’m looking at you, medium armor human male)and some guys also want the option to look sexy and show some skin, so again, more options would be apreciated.
I don’t think anyone wouldbe against sexy armor for females if they had the CHOICE to wear them or not, and if males had comparable options to dress skimpy too.
For a more company like Anet, that has tried t be progressive, this should be a non issue at all.
Most female armor is not skimpy. There is literally one option for a short skirt in the game for light armor (besides the skirt our character comes in). There are no options for shorts for my class. Most skirts are long or mid length, with the exception of Aurora, which resembles a cheerleader skirt, probably the ugliest skirt in the game. Carapace, Leystone, bladed armor, illustrious armor, drybones armor – basically almost all armor since launch, covers a lot of skin. Sure, some of the tops might be revealing if they were paired with other items, but when paired with the bottoms I can’t believe anyone would call them “skimpy”. My class not only has a long skirt option for just about everything, there are pants under the skirt for most of the armor that is newer(basically like a conspiracy to make our characters look ugly). I can’t stand leg slits, either, or the hole crude they call tier 3 cultural armor. The feathered is okay I suppose. To me skimpy armor means both the top and the bottom are very minimal.
If you want coverage go with dungeon armor, order armor, devout, drybones, acolyte, illustrious, student, exalted, seer, country. Even many I don’t mention aren’t exactly “skimpy”, even though they have shorter skirts, because basically they are poofy skirts over leotards (cabalist and magician are not skimpy). That leaves about three sets that you could consider skimpy… apprentice, winged and feathered, and that ragged stuff they call tier 3 human cultural armor. There is some that borders on skimpy, like the top is small, but if the bottom is completely covered it really isn’t skimpy skimpy. You could mix and match armor to get more options for coverage they way I mix and match to show more skin. You have many if not more than I do.
