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Mens Winter Coats Need to Be Reversed

trekpantstrekpants Member Posts: 21 Arc User
edited December 2012 in The Art of Star Trek Online
In western fashion, all mens button-up clothing folds left-over-right, and womens clothing folds right-over-left. Although this might not seem important, it's a very standard rule in the clothing industry that's been followed for several centruries.

Commonly, graphic artists tend to overlook this when designing characters for video games. The Winter Coats in Star Trek Online have also been subject to this type of error. It may seem like a nit-pick, but as of now all the Winter Coats being offered in Star Trek Online are technically womens clothing.

A simple reverse of the mens coats will fix this problem.

Here are a few articles for reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suit_(clothing)

http://www.ravistailor.com/news.php?ItemNo=114

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_men_button_left_over_right_and_women_button_right_over_left

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100413093539AAByqTd

http://www.mycustomtailor.com/customtailor/Details_In_A_Suit_Jacket.htm
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited December 2012
    No it looks good the way it is, there is no need.
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  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Truly a critical issue in need of immediate attention. :rolleyes:
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I am not entirely shure how the game has even progressed over the past 2 weeks, with a flaw of this magnitude.
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  • trekpantstrekpants Member Posts: 21 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    It's certainly not a game-ending flaw by any means. I'm sorry if it's not as "crucial" as having the wrong texture on a cannon uniform, or the placement of a combadge, but it IS a mistake, and one that can be fixed very easily.

    Isn't that what this art feedback forum is for?
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited December 2012
    It really doesn't matter, I have a jacket that buttons up on that side, it's definitely a male jacket. It's not really an error, especialy compared to some of the other STO uniform errors, TWOK ranks, or the TNG jumpsuits.
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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    'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
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  • ocp001ocp001 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    And I thought I was the only one who noticed that error. Just thought cross dressing was the "in" thing this winter.
  • lordmanzelotlordmanzelot Member Posts: 468 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Sorry but i can't live with this insufficiency,bye! *jump out of the window* ;)
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  • maxvitormaxvitor Member Posts: 2,213 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    "Western Fashion" is a term that hardly applies in 25th century gender neutral fashion for humanoids of many species. There is nothing that needs to be fixed here.
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  • crusty8maccrusty8mac Member Posts: 1,381 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    I wonder if they got the tags on the correct sides?
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  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    trekpants wrote: »
    Isn't that what this art feedback forum is for?

    Fair enough.

    I guess it just caught me by surprise that in a forum filled with Trek fans, the most nit-picky, quibbly fandom known to science, someone came up with an impossibly small nitpick that isn't even Trek-related.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    jexsamx wrote: »
    Fair enough.

    I guess it just caught me by surprise that in a forum filled with Trek fans, the most nit-picky, quibbly fandom known to science, someone came up with an impossibly small nitpick that isn't even Trek-related.

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  • voicesdarkvoicesdark Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    trekpants wrote: »
    In western fashion, all mens button-up clothing folds left-over-right, and womens clothing folds right-over-left. Although this might not seem important, it's a very standard rule in the clothing industry that's been followed for several centruries.

    Commonly, graphic artists tend to overlook this when designing characters for video games. The Winter Coats in Star Trek Online have also been subject to this type of error. It may seem like a nit-pick, but as of now all the Winter Coats being offered in Star Trek Online are technically womens clothing.

    A simple reverse of the mens coats will fix this problem.

    Here are a few articles for reference:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suit_(clothing)

    http://www.ravistailor.com/news.php?ItemNo=114

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_men_button_left_over_right_and_women_button_right_over_left

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100413093539AAByqTd

    http://www.mycustomtailor.com/customtailor/Details_In_A_Suit_Jacket.htm

    Actually the fold on the men's winter jacket being fold going from right to left is probably intentional. The jacket is obviously based off of the field jacket from Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. While the jacket itself had a straight zipper, the main uniform of the movie had that fold from right to left, so this is probably why it was done in this way.
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  • leihngweileihngwei Member Posts: 164 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    voicesdark wrote: »
    Actually the fold on the men's winter jacket being fold going from right to left is probably intentional. The jacket is obviously based off of the field jacket from Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. While the jacket itself had a straight zipper, the main uniform of the movie had that fold from right to left, so this is probably why it was done in this way.
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  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Military clothing doesn't conform to the laws of fashion.

    Get over it.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    lordmalak1 wrote: »
    Military clothing doesn't conform to the laws of fashion.

    Get over it.
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