Why on EARTH are we not able to reset Villager Clothes!?

DAISY3

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My mom plays the game as well, (I'm the owner of the town) and after leaving without a word in New Leaf, I FINALLY got Carmen back, Albeit with a illegal amiibo card. (My Mom got it for me, so i just went along with it) and all was good, I even gave her a winter solstice sweater because i thought it would look cute on her, (it did!) HOWEVER My mom gave her a Rugby Shirt and i absolutely DESPISE how it looks on her and ofc it ended up being her favorite, I reported her to Isabelle TWICE and both times she kept wearing it! I wouldn't have minded her keeping the default clothes on instead of the sweater, but now i've had to consider moving her out and rescanning her for a fresh start! I told her to stop giving her clothes and she agreed, HOWEVER she wouldnt stop giving clothes to my SECOND bestie Bea, I loved her with her default clothing but my mom gave her stuff and now i hate her even more than Carmen! (Again, at least i have her amiibo card, legal this time) NOT TO MENTION that my mom gave the entire town (excluding carmen cuz this is AFTER the rugby shirt situation) different uniforms with numbers ranking the villagers on how she likes them, and a ton of them became the villager's favorite! Which definetely ruined everyone i still mostly liked! I reported every single one of them and things continued like nothing ever happened! I completely burned out because of this! And from what i've heard, They DON'T stop wearing shirts with ACTUAL inappropriate designs! Oh, but only YOUR designs because it just makes sense that only YOU would've done it, right...? AGH! I swear, if this isnt fixed, I might just quit for good
 
I hate it a lot and clearly they didn't think this through

What if someone puts a naughty design in your ables?

HUH NINTENDO??
 
Isabelle only stops them from wearing custom designs. Doesn't matter if it's from someone elses island or the ones hanging in your ables. If someone puts up a bad custom design in your ables, you'll have to replace with your own or have another designer put it.

As for the shirts situation, you can give your villagers more clothing you like on them so they'll pick the ugly shirts less. Including their default clothing. Be careful about giving them too much because they will start displaying clothing in their house. Once an empty floor spot is filled, you can't empty it again.

It's rare but villagers can sell you clothing that you have gifted them before.
 
Isabelle only stops them from wearing custom designs. Doesn't matter if it's from someone elses island or the ones hanging in your ables. If someone puts up a bad custom design in your ables, you'll have to replace with your own or have another designer put it.

As for the shirts situation, you can give your villagers more clothing you like on them so they'll pick the ugly shirts less. Including their default clothing. Be careful about giving them too much because they will start displaying clothing in their house. Once an empty floor spot is filled, you can't empty it again.

It's rare but villagers can sell you clothing that you have gifted them before.
From what I've heard, Isabelle only removes custom designs ONLY if you were the one who created them!
 
Nintendo has made countless questionable decisions over this game and this is definitely one of them. I have no idea the rationale for this or if they somehow didn’t consider it? It’s so frustrating because things like this keep adding up
 
I think a lot of bugs that people call out as needing to be fixed are by-design and intentional, but this and the pen pal letters having no effect on friendship levels really seems like obvious problems in delivering what the mechanism is clearly designed to do
 
From what I've heard, Isabelle only removes custom designs ONLY if you were the one who created them!

So I looked into this custom design issue a little bit more.

If you adopt a villager from another island and they are wearing a custom design from their original island, you can reset it by hanging up any design in your ables, wait until they wear your design and then you can ask Isabelle to reset it to get rid of the not yours custom design.

However the downside is that you cannot reset the clothing that is hung up in your able sisters to the default so you will always have at least one custom design up. But you can make some generic shirt/sweater design which is probably better than the inappropriate design the villager came with
 
Yeah this drives me crazy! I got Hugh from a seller on nookazon, they told me he was original but ofc he wasn’t and has been gifted the most hideous clothing. I don’t like having to run to Isabelle every time he wears something horrible from his previous island. What if he had started wearing something inappropriate from their custom design? This issue needs to fixed.
 
I also noticed now that when another villager sends me to get them a gift, if it is clothing, they will wear it now! I hate that, they keep giving each other sporty clothes and I hate it. Before this they were all wearing they original clothes, I never gift them any clothes just to prevent that, and now they are gifting each other horrible clothes.

Even when you give them the other village gift and tell them is horrible, they will wear it some time after. I have tried all dialogue and all results in them wearing it eventually...
 
Yeah this drives me crazy! I got Hugh from a seller on nookazon, they told me he was original but ofc he wasn’t and has been gifted the most hideous clothing. I don’t like having to run to Isabelle every time he wears something horrible from his previous island. What if he had started wearing something inappropriate from their custom design? This issue needs to fixed.
^This
I've been fooled buying a "Ungifted" Cherry from Nookazon. Turned out she was gifted like 3 terrible shirts that doesn't suit her whatsoever and wears a black hat and bunny ears. I was so mad because I wasted 50 NMT on her. I bought her amiibo nfc tag so I might scan her back in. Just a bummer though that she ended up being GIFTED.
 
I love how you can fully coordinate an outfit for them in Harv's Island but somehow it'd be the end of the franchise as we know it if we could do it regularly. Sometimes I get the feeling this game is becoming all about misleading appearances and cutesy pics with the amount of things that are still just decor only/restricted.
 
This is one of the reasons I really hesitate to take a villager from somebody else's island. I don't know them or what they've gifted to that villager. I don't want somebody running around my island with something that I will find offensive. Nintendo really does need to fix this. I think when you adopt someone, they should completely revert to original.
 
This is honestly my number 1 pet peeve with this game! Like if I tell Isabelle I don't like a villagers clothing, that means it needs to be gone forever lol.
 
This and not being able to reset interiors is two out of three of my biggest gripes about the game. Definitely needs a QoL improvement.

I wonder if everyone @ Nintendo or the official animal crossing account on twitter, can this request be relayed to the developers? With games made by American developers feedback like that does sometimes result in changes fans want. Unsure how it works with Japanese developers and there being a language barrier. I’m sure even the Japanese side of the community are having this same frustration.
 
This is one of the reasons I'm glad I don't share an island with anyone. Although it can happen in other ways. Boone asked me to take a gift to Raymond cause they had a fight and it turned out to be the instant muscles suit. It has become his favorite of course. It was weird at first but I've gotten used to it now. I made the mistake of giving him a shirt he asked me for(oversized shawl overshirt) and it looks awful on him. I'm hoping he won't wear it too much. But Cobb is the worse right now. He's wearing a brown pajama dress(I think he got it in a gift) and he looks ridiculous in it. He won't wear anything else. I bought him a black denim vest i'm giving him today and pray he wears it.
 
Why is your mom so fixated on gifting the villagers clothing? Ask her to just give fruit only.... lol.
 
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