Guild Wars 2

I have had this happen to me since level 10 with various types of handgear so its not specific to these gloves. I have never seen it happen on another race. I’m not sure what causes it, possibly tabbing out of the game. Pictures attached:

And how they should look:

Just dawned on me that the strange texture appearing underneath the bracers is actually the same as the aqua breather.

I can confirm that exact same thing happens on human female and male character. The texture glitch can be seen on both boots and gloves (e.g. on masquerade set). This doesn’t seem to occur when i don’t have aqua breather equipped.

Same thing happens to my human male

I fixed it by transmuting my aquabreather into the one Blopp sells in metrical province http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blopp