No, you can’t just take a pawn’s equipment even if you like their top

Fashion is one of the most important things in an RPG for me. Unfortunately, most mage outfits in Dragon’s Dogma 2 suck, so when I found a pawn who had a cute top I wanted to put on, I was met with a sad notification that pawn equipment you take will be returned to their owner after you dismiss them. So if you see something on your followers that you’d rather wear yourself, just track down their player online and ask where they got that outfit.