OMIGOSH, I COULD SCREAM! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! All these years, my little child self is validated in her belief that it was hair all along! XD I absolutely adore how the ears barely peek out from the old hairdo in the new graphics. Ah, I just... It does my heart such good. . . . I never thought I'd be excited about wearing that uniform as a child, haha. I literally can hear the background music just looking at it. I always hypothesized that hairstyle was meant to be the one sported under the Gamecube female character's hat.
. . . Ah, but then again this is just a design from New Horizons meant to look like the Game Cube. Has anyone used an actual older era code in New Horizons for the female character? Honestly, I think it will look the same as the male horned hat in the Youtube video with the male style being the default design. I wish there was some definitive confirmation from Nintendo about the horns versus hair debate for Gamecube- what they were in the context of Gamecube, and not just the context of them being horns now for the "horned hat." I do still think they were hair, but I am not Nintendo.