I understand older items remain the same, but newer items I don't understand. When layering in the wardrobe, now that we can remove limbs layering, a lot of the new items still show the basic arms cutouts, along with the legs, like in backgrounds.... You would figure that newer wardrobe items would layer solid, and when you remove a limb, the item you're layering will show solid, with no cutout for arms or legs. Oh please, would it be possible to design new layer items in a solid fashion? Like long wigs that don't disappear behind the basic arm layer, or a background remains solid if the legs layers were removed. I also understand that "some" older things can be edited??? I don't know. I'm not a designer here so I am unaware of the challenges the artists and programmers face. But I do know they have the challenges. It's work! So this is only a suggestion, take or leave it. Thank you for the hard work you do on here, it doesn't go unnoticed.

All the recent backgrounds are solid and will work if you remove any limbs, if you're seeing one that is leaving solid white behind it means it was created before the new wardrobe was launched.

For things such as wigs there's no way to make them not disappear without forcing the item to -always- be on top of the base. See items like - the arms will always be under the hair, and if you try putting it under the base, well, the whole thing will be under the base.

As for the older items that don't work: I don't think they can be fixed. The art is really ancient in most of them and it would take a tremendous effort (time and money) to fix everything.

I really think the current layering system is as good as it can possibly be. It's very superior to other pet site's systems (like Neopets or Dappervolk) and inconsistencies are just part of it, they will never be 100% solved. We have enough items that if you are facing a layering problem you can probably find alternatives.

This is just my two cents, I'm posting because I really appreciate the wardrobe and I have tons of fun with it.

i certainly agree in wishing older backgrounds/ground items could be updated. some are so pretty but not very usable because they have the cutout. unfortunately there are older CWs like this too. u_u

but yeah, i don't foresee any getting updated. that would be comically low priority, if considered at all. it has happened for some of the costume trunks, so maybe some of those one day...

and for the issue with hair, the only way to solve that is to have 2 items for each hairstyle: one for the head part that goes on top, and another for the back part that goes behind. there are some CWs that do this, but i think it's usually preferable to just have to buy one item instead and just deal with the layering. maybe for a particularly special/intricate hairstyle but... even i think it would be way more work than is worth it to separate all the hairs and/or completely overhaul how layering them works.

i think the way layering and the wardrobe works are kinda set in stone at this point. it's been years with thousands of items adhering to our current system. i don't think human avatars were expected to become one of the biggest (probably the biggest) aspect of the site when they were introduced. otherwise things would have been done differently, i'm sure! still mad about cankles

thanks for breaking that down for me. Makes a whole lotta sense when you explain it like that.