There's some misconceptions floating around.

Clothing decay has not been in since beta.

Repeat, clothing decay has not been in since beta.

This is also why there is no UXP for clothing (UXP is currently granted only for items that decay, such as weapons and armor, or for consumables). We removed time-based decay from all sorts of things in beta because players didn't like the idea of stuff simply decaying away based on time.

Do we agree that clothing could USE decay? Yes, because the market could stand to have ongoing demand, just as you point out.

But all we did in this mni-patch was remove an obsolete field on schematics that was not being used by the game.

Our current thinking for clothing decay is the death idea I floated in a thread yesterday. Basically, all items in inventory or equipped (including clothing) would suffer some damage when you get incapped, unless they were insured.

This would then provide decay to a whole host of things that currently do not have it.

That Idea could possibly work. so even if you die and are insured the clothing would suffer decay?

Either way, somehow we need to be able to cycle clothing out like other objects or you could have a serious database load on your hands as tons and tons of garments come in but never go out of the game.

Thanks for the update Holo. 

However, someone (not necessarily you) could have cleared up this misconception caused by the poor wording of the patch notes much sooner.  As it stands the boards have been in an uproar over this for the past 6 hours.  You need to hire that assistant community manager soon.

No UXP from clothes? Since when?

but as stated in several other threads here, more and more people are leaving their non essential items (read clothing) behind when they go out hunting - so i'm not sure this would affect clothing much if at all. 

there needs to be a reason for people to bother bringing their clothing with them if this is going to be the solution to the removal of the non working decay issue.  as it stands now, you heal just as fast wearing nothing as you do in clothes, so why bother?  give us the ability to build in accelerated healing, or skill mods, or SOMETHING to make clothing more useful than just to look cool.

Yes, we know clothing decay had not been in. That's not the point of most the the complaints.

The point is that we feel lied to. We were promised clothing decay only to log in to the following patch note:

"Removed the decayRate attribute from many schematics. Community feedback was overwhelming that we remove decay from clothing." - quote from patch notes.

I think you can see how this appears to contradict EVERYTHING we have been told.

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Holocron wrote:

But all we did in this mni-patch was remove an obsolete field on schematics that was not being used by the game.

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Then why didn't you guys say so with the patch notes in the first place instead of making it look like clothing decay would never be implimented because of "community feedback"???

I can see how you are trying to do a little damage control, but you must admit the way thing were worded are highly misleading.

Agreed.  I bought about 6 complete sets of clothing and haven't purchased a single piece from my tailor in about 6 weeks.  Hooray for Clothing decay. 

Now, with this whole "everything in inventory takes damage unless insured" bit....that's fine, as long as the costs to Insure all my carried items isn't 80,000 credits.  Yes, you read that right, 80,000 credits.  Ridiculous.  Bring those Insurance costs in line with what normal players can afford, bump it up a little bit if needed, and you're golden.

And in case you've missed it, here's the source of the confusion.  The designer response:

"We completely agree and are working to implement [decay] now.  This should be in very soon, much to the chagrin of players who aren't tailors"

Today's update notes:

"Removed the decayRate attribute from many schematics.  Community feedback was overwhelming that we remove decay from clothing"

Well, I made the following post:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=474654

on the main boards.  Unfortunately, I named it, "Item Decay - A Constructive solution for DE's, Tailors and Architects" and not something like "NERF X - H3 I5 2 l337" or something, so it fell right off the main page.

I am going to repost it here, as the decay issue applies not only to tailors, but to architects and DE's as well.

Holo.. thats great .. and fine.. but thats not the big issue.. here... we all feel we were lied to.. Just a couple weeks ago.. we all read that decay was in.. and in a big way.... now its completly gone... great thanks.. so much for individual tailor standing out in the pack.... with out decay.. what makes one master tailor .. different than another.... all other master craftsman can experiment.... and no two master weaponsmiths can make the exact gun.. not so with tailors now... so why do it... we cant use BE items (correctly anyway)... we cant experiment... we can make socketed clothing .. but the skill powerups dont work.... so in other words.. what makes one tailor different than another???? this is just crazy broken.... and the main reason i'm going to do something else.. no point really.. after everyone gets a couple sets of clothes... we will never see em again...

Dreamscape ..Ex Master Tailor