Yes, the title did get attention, and wasn't even all that misleading. Well done!
As far as dresses go and skirts go, I figured that it's a cultural distinction. These 'dresses' might be called something else, like robes or vestments or whatever, but due to their specific cut, are, in fact, dresses. Thus, the interface says they're dresses, but they're actually masculine garments! Like kilts!
Actually that's all very silly, it actually would be better if clothes were gender-specific, that way it'd mean something when your buff barbarian dons a pearl-encrusted dress or a skirt with an image sewn into it of a mole striking down a dwarf.
Also, if male dwarves only wore specific kinds of skirts, say, a new piece called a Kilt, then we can put together bands of kilt-wearing berzerkers and that's sweet. Or, someday, we could probably force them to wear masterwork spider-silk summer dresses.
I would think we're a very long way off until entities start =caring= what they or another entity are wearing, however, and until then, it's all a bit pointless, just foundation for the future and hilarity for the player.
"This image is a rendition of one by Duduk Kikud. It shows a dwarf surrounded by dwarves. The dwarf is raising a kilt. The kilt is named Chilledcrab the Rainy Rawness."
[ February 04, 2008: Message edited by: Stromko ]