There's people that don't want Origin, period. Simple as that. Besides, unless there's another place that you know of that I can at least trust enough to get a legitimate CD key for it, ~$40, which is the current Origin price and what I saw on a few other CD key sites, is still too much for me, at least.

Not normally, but sims with the Painter Extraordinaire aspiration thing get a trait that lets them use any emotion when they complete it.

Can you take a look at the Formalize autonomous action used by the Proper trait? It looks like it tends to override outerwear, and I'm pretty sure I've had a situation where a sim who was standing outside kept switching between formal wear and outerwear until I made him go inside