I feel you Irish. I recently had a v16 glass helmet crafted for me. I was like "awesome, I know what it looks like aND I like how it looks"...except when I went to dye it it came out maube instead of deep royal purple...guess I should have paid attention to those threads about glass not taking dyes well.
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This would be awesome. I went with Primal on my sorc long ago, and really didn't like the look afterwards. At least when I recrafted for VR16, I got an ok looking set with Daedric.
IGG, I think many of us has asked for this since beta, and I know ZOS has responded saying something like "That's a great idea, we will look into doing something like that", but it's never happened. All we can really do is keep begging for it with the hope that someday ZOS will finally get around to implementing it.
They do a preview for the Crown Store items, they can facilitate one for crafting.
Of course, you might want to get a preview of the style page of the new female sets before you drop a wad of gold, since they on-purpose used the male versions.