I'm using Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04 because I like the older OS, so that might be an issue, but they loaded fine on this system up until a couple of months ago. Finally biting the bullet to ask and see if there's a possible reason for this.

I've converted the avatar and all my drawers to the new system and the items load in Firefox 52.0b9 (64-bit) on this OS, though slower than I'd like and would prefer to use Chromium, as it was much faster when it worked.

Thanks for any help or advice you can render, and if the question is too specific to my system to attempt an answer, then apologies and thanks for you time.

EDIT: I can load and wear 'saved' outfits previously made. It's only the items that don't load.

have you looked through the Bug vs Wardrobe thread? is not likely to code things to work with old software, but they are changing how the Wardrobe works and you might find some comment or workaround in there somewhere.

Thanks - I'll check there.