I think it would be cool if items in the archives could be grouped like how they are grouped when you go to dress up a pet.. by species, clothing type, object type, etc. and you could go by year in that group. For example if you are in the "full body outfits" section you could go in the "2012 full body outfits", 2013 full body outfits", "2014 full body outfits" etc. section. Get what I mean?
For me that would be very helpful, instead of going through every month and year looking for a certain dress, for example.
This wouldn't apply to the pets archive, of course, but I think it would be really cool for the item archive!
Sorry if how I explained it is complicated, haha!