The thing is that we can still equip cloth armor in the main stat slots.
I bought a pair of cloth shoulderguards for my rogue, so he can use them for apperance. When i tried equipping the item in my wardrobe slot it said that the item can't be equipped (something like that).
I assume it's because rogues are supposed to wear leather armor. The thing is that we can still equip cloth armor in the main stat slots.
So i don't see why we shouldn't be able to wear cloth in apperance slots, if we can equip it for main stats.
One other thing I would realy like to see is apperance slots for weapons. EQ2 has them, and it works there. The apperance weapons would only be displayed if they matched the original weapon type.