While I can't give you a final answer I can say that the barber dude interface got implementet not to long ago so i guess there are plans for it.
Item apperance should not be to hard to fix for the devs, but it might be time consuming.
So probably loooooooow prio atm, but those where some features that made WAR lowly and I hope they are implemented somewhere along the line
Now i have some
basic DB knowledge and I think it would be something along the lines of having a table with CharacterID and itemslots for each char refering to the ItemID of the replacement item. The client have the checkbox so that should be the thing enabling pulling for the data from the table.
But then again the DB team is really busy with items and stuff that affect the general gameplay more then looks
