Hey... you may wanna consider this, as Me(tm) liked the idea I gave him...
Custom graphics per actor... sort of like this:
- Shirt01 (a regular shirt in the archive)
- Shirt01_Aluxes (a regular shirt, customized for actor #1)
- Shirt01_Dorothy (a regular shirt for actor #4, Dorothy)
The system would assume that the character is using the first, but takes a look to see if the actor has a custom graphic assigned. The drawback to using the actor's name is that you'd not be able to change the character's name in-game (unless you save the 'original' pre-changed name somehow :D)
So even various sized characters can have similar graphics. I did that for Visual Battlers.