SSE Why can't women wear vanilla male clothing?

[Guest deleted153426568]

One of my big bugaboos about Skyrim is that a female cannot wear male vanilla clothing. While wearing a dress might be practical indoors, in a town, or city, a dress is not very practical while traveling through forest, climbing mountains, dungeon delving, swimming, or fighting. Is there a good mod that lets female characters wear men's clothing? For instance, the short black male vampire robes would look great on a female character when paired with some fine black boots, and some black gloves, but the game doesn't let you do that. If you are playing as a female character and you kill a male vampire wearing the short black male vampire robes and loot his body, the game automatically converts the short male vampire robes into female vampire robes that look like a full black dress. That's just silly. What did your female character bring her sowing machine with her?

 

Is there a mod that fixes this issue? I realize there are a million mods that I can upload that will allow my character to wear different outfits, but I find most of them lore breaking. I want my female characters to dress in clothes that would actually make sense for the weather and environment, not run around Skyrim dressed like a stripper, or porn star. I figured the easiest way to achieve that is a mod that allows a female character to use vanilla assets that are already in the game.

 

Thanks for reading.

[JamesHalliday]

These mods don't cover everything in the game, but they'll get you started.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/108123

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/108961

[Guest deleted153426568]

Thanks you JamesHalliday for pointing out these mods, unfortunately these mods go a bit too far for my taste. My idea was to find a lore friendly mod that would allow for a female Explorer / Archer build to wear mundane lore friendly clothes while in the wild. The mod author went over board and decided to make their mods lore breaking by putting some male NPCs in dresses. I find that lore breaking. Skyrim is supposed to be a fantasy version of Old Norse culture. Aside from a single story of Thor and Loki donning women's clothing to sneak into a Frost Giant compound, in ancient Scandinavia crossdressing and transgenderism did not exist to any measurable degree. According to the mod author, my aversion to having lore breaking crossdressing NPCs makes me a bigot, homophobe, transphobe, furry phobe, cross dresser phobe, and all around evil person. Well anyway thank you for the heads up, maybe I can find something else .

[showler]

To answer your question: In Skyrim clothes aren't worn ON the body, they REPLACE the body. So a female character wearing male clothing would suddenly have a male body. So, specific male and female versions of every outfit need to be created.