Has Anyone Else Noticed This??

Im somewhat new to developing~and i love to add my own style and everything but i realized there is no way to do one armed shirts/outfits. Is there a reason why we can only make two armed outfits instead of being able to switch it up a little. Everything in the appearance options is in pairs~nothing is separate. So i was wondering is there a way to get that fixed or can it be fixed??

Can't be fixed, without an entirely new avatar mesh that would be incompatable with all current skins and clothes.

They based the SL Avatar on a very early Poser figure mesh, that only had one arm defined, with the other arm mirror-flipped. Poser abandoned that approach on their next iteration of their figures, but LL never bothered to upgrade.

Umm.. I don't remember any Poser People being as bad as our AV. I think they made the mesh themselves, and were.. ummm... not so very experienced at making human meshes.

At any rate, I know my first human mesh had many of the same problems (divot in the chest just below the neck, uneven fingers, questionable flow) this one has.

The clothing is determined by the UV Maps, which the Lindens call "templates." On those maps, we have only one arm, one foot, and one eye. The matching parts, as Ceera said, have been mirror flipped, and occupy the same place on the UV Map.

So, unless you use prims, our feet, eyes, and arms will always be mirror images of each other. And there's nothing at all that can be done about it.

Take a look at "Ruth" in the Poser avatar library. It was a Poser 1.0 or so figure.