I don't have much experience with smithing. I do have it at 100, but I only used it to make Steel Plate armor and Dragonplate armor and some various jewellery. However, I was thinking. Last night, I dreamt I was a redguard in Riverwood and I took some of those cool redguard clothing and put them on a workbench and made them legendary , giving them a decent armor rating. Then I enchanted them. Wouldn't it be cool if you could use a work bench to improve clothing? I think it would. Now, you could say what is the point of that? Well, clothing is pretty cool. Plus, you have maximum mobility and there are no penalties for sprinting in them. I mean, you can enchant them, so why can't I improve them?

Also, it would be neat if we could use a Grindstone for various misc items such as Brooms so you can use them like swords, grind some dwemer scrap items like those large struts and use them as a blunt weapon or something. After playing Assassins Creed, I can never look at brooms the same way ever again. Same goes for fishing poles XD

I think it would make the game fun and add a variety of options.

nevermind didnt read it all the way

It would be great to create your own clothes, for aesthetic reasons.

did you make some assless chaps and a bikers cap? in this awesome dream?

I know clothes don't give you any armor rating. Which is why it'd be cool to upgrade them. They wouldn't compare to say, light armor, but it's better than a flat zero. Even if the maximum rating was say, 50, that's better than 0

By "Improve Clothes" I thought you meant the design especially of the "rich" clothes which either look like an oversized jacket on a female, or like some Russian coat on both men and women in the case of the two quilted designs. On men the blue and green fine clothes give them too much of a chest and make them look a little like some out of proportioned body building with big chest muscles but little tiny legs and feet.

I can design better. And I have.

I was half hoping to come across some Luxory gown. Too bad some of the best designs ended with Polynira in the Imperial City. "Divine Elegance" However all we have now is "Radiant Rainment" however these "tailors" can't even provide Tavern clothes but they can provide rags on occassion. None of the designs really grasp "noble" for me. In fact there are "Noble clothes" you can steal about 2 of them from the East Empire Trading Company but they look like a reskinned Emperor's Robes.

In Oblivion you could enchant clothes with elemental shielding to give them armor ratings. Its a pity that Skyrim doesn't have that option.

Proof that you played too much Skyrim = You play it in your dreams too