After months of anticipation, we are pleased to announce the relaunch of the Custom Wearable system! This update comes with SO MANY new features and improvements to make both buying and creating CWs easier and more accessible than ever! Some highlights include:

• NEW! Official CW Item Directory! There is now a Custom Wearables directory that includes everything you need to know about a CW! Have a favorite item? You can search for it to see if it is available in their shop. Curious if an item is retired or sold out? The directory will let you know! Just feel like browsing through the gorgeous wears to fill your wishlist? Then this is the place for you! In addition, if you are a CW releaser, you can add public releaser notes to the directory listings for your own items!


• CW Shops Improvements! Visit the CW Shops to see newly released items as well as manage your own! Take a look through your new CW Warehouse - your new storage space for items that are not retired but not in your shop - and see if there is anything you want to get back on the market. You can use the Warehouse for temporary retirements as well! When managing your shop, use the new search filters to look through your own items and find that specific one you need to make edits to! Want to invite specific users to look at an item? Invite them directly from your shop and they can pick up the item - no additional steps (and no password) required!


• CW Submission MAJOR Revamp! Ready to submit an item? Head to the Releaser’s Hub where it is now easier than ever to get your items in the queue! Pricing categories have been simplified and made cheaper, AND you are only required to pay for your own copy of the item at submission time, dramatically lowering the submission cost.


• Other CW Submission Quality-of-Life Improvements! When submitting, you can optionally choose to also pay for an artist copy at half price (!!) which will be sent to the artist directly upon approval! There is no more complicated recolor-enabling process; if you're submitting a recolor, just type the item name of your original color in the submission form! And when you resubmit for a denial, you can resubmit directly from your Denial History page, which will pre-fill the submission form with (most of the) values from your previous submission.

AND MORE!! If you're already familiar with CWs, we have put together an in-depth transition guide that will walk you through all the new features, additions, quality-of-life updates, and important changes to note. We strongly advise to review this prior to submitting any items so you can become familiar with the changes.

Click here to read about ALL THE UPDATES in our detailed Transition Guide!

Are you new to custom wearables? Don’t worry, we have you covered too! Check out the Introduction to CWs guide to help you understand the basics before getting started.

At first glance, everything is going to look very, very different. This is because nearly everything Custom Wearable related, including submissions, shops, and the directory are now part of Subeta v2. (More on this from the programmers below!) However, we have put together tools to help you adapt and adjust to the changes. In addition to the two new guides linked above, we also have:

- Topic: Question about which category to submit your CW under? Ask here! - In this topic, Jessi and a panel of volunteers will help answer any questions about which new category to submit your item under if you are not sure!

- Topic: The Official Custom Wearables FAQ - A new and extensive Official CW FAQ, which should answer everything else. And if it doesn't? We specifically made this a forum topic instead of a webpage so that you could post further questions on it :) so ask away and we'll do our best to help!

Whew! We hope you are as excited to try the new system out as we are to finally share it with you. To give back to the CW community, we're adding two new little "bonuses" for both buyers and releasers:

1. Buy any CW from a CW shop in the new system to earn the freshly minted Custom Made achievement! The prize is a spiffy new forum title: "___ is custom made"

2. We also want to say THANK YOU to all past, present, and future CW releasers! As a special bonus, you will now get a free CW voucher with your every 10th approval (excluding recolors). As a reminder, CW vouchers can be redeemed for any item priced at 700 CSC or less in CW Shops.

Finally: We have worked extremely hard to provide the best chance for a smooth and bug-free transition. That said, we understand unexpected issues can still occur. Please read the programmer post below for bug report guidelines and some info about Subeta V2. If you are viewing this on the news post, click to go to the announcement topic, and it will be the second post on the thread.

Thank you, and enjoy the new-and-improved Custom Wearable system!!!