To be honest, this “dress up” stuff is one of the reasons I quit WoW. Let’s face it, WoW is glorified Barbie dress up – with people competing for “cooler” (i.e. prettier) costumes. Nope – I wear whatever gives my char the best stats and I don’t change for in-game occassions :)

I always dress up my MW character for any occasion. In addition to my armor I’ll carry 2 or 3 different clothing outfits, a robe, several pairs of boots and 2 overcoats. When I bring a companion with me I’ll carry clothing and armor for them too. It just doesn’t feel right to wear my armor when I’m redecorating, fishing, sleeping or visiting high ranking great house members.

My Dark Brotherhood character in Oblivion was never seen in Dark Brotherhood gear outside the Sanctuary. His traveling gear was worn only on the road, armor when dungeon delving, and DB gear when performing an assassination. I think the best part actually cam from my roommate poking fun at me because of it, until I caught him doing the same thing.

No, I can’t say I do this either. While I’m always on the lookout for more cool looking gear, sometimes sacrificing slightly better items, I’ve never changed my characters into casual clothing while shopping, fishing or the like, unless it had substantial in-game benefits.

@ Phil:

See, I just use Evonice’s Landin’ Pilla for that. It’s a trinket that gives you 10 seconds of slow fall. You jump of the cliff and hit as you approach the ground. If you time it right, you get no damage. Love it. Sadly, it has a 30 minute cooldown.

I’m sort of envious of my brother’s Parachute Cloak which does the same exact thing, just has longer duration and shorter cooldown. Sadly it requires Engineering skill.

@ jambarama:

This was never a problem for me in Morrowind and Oblivion. I would just keep my fancy clothes in my house. I got into a habit of visiting my place frequently to unload all the loot, and that’s where I would change outfits if I wanted to.

Plus Bethesda games had weight based system rather inventory slots so fancy shirt and pantaloons were usually almost weightless.

Now in games that have limited inventory slots, having outfits may be difficult. Fortunately in WoW my brother’s friend is a Tailor and she made us sets of nice big frostweave bags for free because he helped her collect all the super-rare materials for her flying carpet mount. So for now, I sort of have space to spare for a few extra RP shirts. :)

No, I’m afraid I’ve never done this. Inventory limits mean I tend to keep an array of gear, each piece of which has some purpose.

Before WOW had a built-in outfit system, I used a mod for this exact purpose. Though, my only two outfits were combat and take-off-all-the-armor-that-can-break-so-i-can-go-jump-off-this-really -high-cliff