Not to bring in a suggestion from another MMO but DCUO had the right idea regarding clothing.. the gave you a style option so regardless of what stats u had on your hands, legs, feet, head etc.. u could also swap betwee various styles and colour of clothing at will once you had found and unlocked that style option for as prev mentionsed areas head, feet legs etc.. so you could have corellian solider pants, with Naboo Guard gloves style, with Wookie Battle vest style) but despite that any stat changes u make would not effect how u looked.. only altering the style tab choice would change appearence and thus nt effect the stat under it