Changing out the Images under Parent Categories to be Images not Items to represent Subcategories

[hushclothing]

I have a parent category with four subcategories. Instead of the "featured" ITEMS, i'd like to just have images to help a customer with navigation to drill down further.

Specifically, I have 

WOMEN'S TOPS

----LONG SLEEVE

----BASIC TOPS

----SHORT SLEEVE

----JACKETS

Currently, when the WOMEN'S TOPS category is selected, 4 representative items for each of the four subcategories appear. This is not customer-friendly, I don't want people to think I only have four items in the category. Instead, is there a way to add IMAGES not an ITEMS to the parent WOMEN'S TOPS category? Or does it have to be ITEMS? Is there a different way I should be approaching this?

Thanks!

[Bernadette3]

 Are those all variations or modifiers for each item you have, @hushclothing?