Regarding compatibility with other clothing mods, the short answer is I don't know. I am a single penguin human and I don't have psychic knowledge of how other mods work in terms of distribution (unless I happen to use them myself).
The best way to find out is to make a test save and see if it works in your own load order. If there is an incompatibility, post a comment or PM me and I will try to patch for it (no promises).
This is a rundown of how Styles of Skyrim series distributes it's outfits using Skypatcher:
Outfit Patcher:
The original ARMO in an outfit is replaced with a levelled list containing the original vanilla colour + new colour variants. NPC outfits will be pulled from this list, creating more randomness and different combinations each playthrough.
I made use of Skypatchers' 'replacebyform' function, so under certain conditions other mods which add new NPCs like Interesting NPCs etc will also benefit from my mod without further patches.
Example 1:
Mods which create an outfit using a levelled list already will need manual patching, by injecting my new outfit's into that mod's lists.
Example 2:
Clothing/Armor mods which replace the form of the vanilla outfit record will be LIKELY INCOMPATIBLE, although I am not aware of any mod that does this so this theory is untested. Let me know if there are such mods.
If a different Skypatcher mod uses 'replacebyform' or 'replacebyoutfit' for an outfit my mod touches, the conflict winner will LIKELY be the esp with the lower alphabet as Skypatcher reads inis alphabetically. Again, this is theory because I cannot find a different mod to test.
Example 3:
NPC Patcher:
The 'default outfit' of an NPC is replaced with the new clothes. The Skypatcher files are labelled with their names, so you can turn off distribution for specific NPCs if you wish.
My distribution can be overwritten by:
1) SPID distribution of a different outfit to an NPC
2) Skypatcher distribution with an esp of a lower alphabet (see above example 3)
Levelled List Patcher:
Adds the new outfits to vanilla levelled lists. Should not have any incompatibilities.
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