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I found that the "Double_Sided" flag caused the feathers on female forsworn armor to be darker than intended and lit from the wrong direction. (If you're using any modded meshes, this is likely already fixed.)

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  • I found that the "Double_Sided" flag caused the feathers on female forsworn armor to be darker than intended and lit from the wrong direction. (If you're using any modded meshes, this is likely already fixed.)
  • This is for the vanilla body, if anyone hasn't fixed this yet this is a modders resource. For learning or conversion.
  • Skyrim has a way to simulate back lighting, but this isn't. It was just a bug, and with the mod it finally looks right.
  • What I did was separate the feathers from the _0 and _1 armor and removed Double_Sided flag from the feathers.

I don't use unofficial patch, but I did check the Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch: Version History just to be sure before releasing this.
Mesh and Texture Fixes
Female Forsworn armor had darkened feathers due to an erroneously set double-sided shader flag. (meshes\clothes\forswornarmor\forswornarmorf_1.nif, meshes\clothes\forswornarmor\forswornarmorf_0.nif) (Bug #12872)
Yes, but the latest unofficial patch I downloaded doesn't include this, although I just did a quick check so I might have missed it.

To quote xavbio, author of Forsworn Armors and Weapons Retexture SE:
This happens because the mesh was modeled so it would not need to be double-sided, but still uses the double-sided flag in nifskope. Meaning the feathers facing inwards cast shadows on the feathers pointing outwards. My fix simply turns off the double-sided flag. Pretty much every mesh replacer or bodyslide conversion also fixes this issue, so this is only necessary if you are using the vanilla meshes.
So it may already be fixed in your game.