When you are in your Boutique, click the manage icon and then the Mannequin icon. A menu will appear on the bottom screen with the following options: Outfit, Hair, Body Colour and Pose. Now we'll cover what you can do in each option. You can also change the appearance of the area the mannequin is placed in through the Shop Window option available through the Remodel icon under the Manage Icon at the boutique.
Outfit
This is the most important one as this is where you will choose an outfit for the mannequin to wear. Now you can't just throw any outfit on the mannequin, it needs to match one certain image/style. Dressing a mannequin is simple, you just choose an outfit like you would if you were serving a customer. Here's some helpful tips for dressing mannequins:
- Use the cycle system! This is a system I discovered that works best when selling mannequin outfits. Start with a theme from the list (such as lively) and place an outfit matching that theme on the mannequin. Once the lively outfit has sold, create an outfit based off the next theme in the list such as Eastern. Repeat until you've gone through all the images. I find this is the best method to move mannequin outfits and I sell one mannequin outfit per game day. If you place the same image outfit on the mannequin after you've just sold one (i.e. a baby-doll outfit after you've sold a baby-doll outfit), you'll have trouble selling the outfit. So it is best to cycle styles and you don't have to work in a straight list, you can say use Gothic first, then girly, then preppy and then bold.
- Dress the mannequin according to the current season. No customer is going to buy a woollen coat in the middle of summer and they will comment if the outfit is too hot or too cold for the current season.
- Don't mix and match too many styles. Customers will not purchase or be interested in outfits that match styles. For example, many outfits from Purple Moon have items in the outfit belonging to multiple themes (i.e. the skirt is preppy but the top is lively). This means you will have trouble selling Purple Moon outfits unless the entire outfit is from the same theme.
- Try placing pieces you want to get rid off on the mannequin. I like to place a Purple Moon t-shirt with lively designs because no one ever requests to buy those.
- There's no price limit to the outfit. Customers will buy the outfit no matter what the price is if it meets their style.
- If customers are after Chic style outfits, you can make some quick money by placing the most expensive items you have on the mannequin.
- Regularly update the outfit on your mannequin. Customers want to see something new and will not purchase an outfit if it has been on the mannequin for a long time.
Pose
There are five pose options available for the mannequin. Simply click on the pose to change the mannequin. The pose of the arms will vary if you have an bag item placed on the mannequin.
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| The five poses available for the mannequin. |
Colour
There is an option to change the colour of the mannequin. You can select a variety of colours including skin tones to bright blue and green. This option is pretty much the same as it was in Fashion Forward.
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| Body colours available for the mannequin. |
Hairstyle
You can select a hairstyle for the mannequin based off all the hairstyles available in the game (the ones you have unlocked during the main story line). The method for selecting a hairstyle is the same as choosing one at the hair salon. You can change the hairstyle, fringe, hair colour and highlights colour.
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| Alter the hairstyle on the mannequin. |
To sell an outfit on a mannequin, make sure you are in your Boutique and a customer card may appear on the far right of the bottom screen. The screen will show them on the exterior of the boutique looking at the window. In the previous game Fashion Forward, any customer would express interest in the mannequin outfit and comment if it matches their style or not. In Styling Star, only customers who match the outfits image (i.e. gothic or chic) will be interested in purchasing the outfit.
When a customer wishes to purchase the outfit, they will request to try it on. If they like it, they will purchase and thank you. The game will play the usual animations of showing the customer with the shopping bag and waving goodbye to your character outside the boutique. Styling Star does not have the feature with the mannequin where it reminds you to place a new outfit on it once all the items have been sold like Fashion Forward did. So try to remember to place a new outfit on the mannequin once you have sold out of the original one.
Another feature that was removed with the mannequins in Styling Star is the option to place miniatures in the Shop Window. Now you can only display the mannequin and alter the Shop Window's background. You can purchase new backgrounds at the Lifestyle Shop when they become available during the main story line of the game.
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| Example of a mannequin outfit under the baby-doll theme. |
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| Example of a mannequin outfit under the gothic theme. |
Why doesn't anyone buy out the items on my mannequin? It's been three days and nobody has looked at it.
ReplyDeleteI've had outfits sit on the mannequin for ages and not been sold. I found changing the outfit helped sell it. Try focusing on a style that is popular in your boutique. Customers seem to ignore mannequins sometimes for the following reasons:
Delete- The outfit has been on the mannequin too long and needs to be updated.
- The outfit is not suitable for the current season. Ie you can't sell heavy jackets in summer or bikini tops in winter.
- You cannot use the same style twice in a row. For example, if you just sold a Baby-Doll outfit from the mannequin, you'll have trouble selling another Baby-Doll style outfit straight after on the mannequin.
- Do not mix and match styles - customers hate this.
- Full Purple Moon outfits rarely sell as items in the set belong to multiple themes usually.
I feel like the mannequin system is worse than it was in the last game. It's disappointing because it's one of my favorite parts. There's only one pose I find easy to style clothes on, and most of the poses I don't like. I feel like there were more options in Fashion Forward. The mannequin color choices are even worse. The skin tone options aren't like any of the actual skin tones and none of the other colors work well. I find myself always using the color that is the darkest skin-like tone because it's the closest to any of the real skin tones in the game and doesn't clash with the clothing. I never change the hairstyle either because it takes so much more work now and none of the hair colors even look good with the mannequin body colors. It's just sad to me that with some of the game improvements came so many setbacks. I don't even know if Styling Star is better than Fashion Forward because of all of the added bad changes.
ReplyDeleteOn a different note, I was wondering if you could help me understand the outfit requirements more. I tend to stick to safe outfits because I never know how many brands I can use or what I can actually do. Sometimes a character will love an outfit that used three brands, sometimes they'll dislike if you use even more than one. I have no clue if this depends on how "close" the brand is to the style you're going for (like using gothic with baby doll compared to lively with chic.) Using something from a different brand that counts as the style you're going for does help but I don't know if that means you can't then add another brand that didn't show up or what. I just really want to be able to use more than just two brands at once. Sometimes they'll dislike it if I use only two close brands, even if all of the items showed up under the same style. Another time I sold a lively outfit that used no items from the lively brand at all. I really wish they put in the manual this type of information so that I could actually have more freedom when styling. It would especially help when trying to sell Purple Moon items because even just selling the brand by itself with all items matching the same style sometimes won't work.
I didn't click the "notify me" option when posting my comment, so it would be great if you could reply to this comment instead. Hopefully I'll get a notification.
DeleteI rarely change the colour of the mannequin, I don't think I've changed it from when I first set it up to a pale colour. The hairstyle I occasionally change if I'm bored of the current one. The mannequin is definitely a lot harder to use in this one, I don't sell as many otufits as I used to in Fashion Forward.
DeleteThe best way to make outfits for the mannequins is to stick to one style. Customers freak out and will avoid outfits that have too many styles or brands associated to it. Try and use only two brands per outfit that fit the same thing and customers will always buy those outfits. Even at the boutique, customers will avoid outfits that use too many brands. It's been like that in the previous games as well. For example, you can sell a lively outfit that features items from brands such as Marzipan Sky or Retrobeat and nothing from the main lively brand April Bonbon. As long as it fits the theme and budget, customers will accept it. Purple Moon is tricky but if you follow the tricks I posted in this guide, you can sell items easily. You just need to match the Purple Moon items to the correct theme and avoid the sets that have multiple themes to them. Silly but I have no clue why the developers made the outfits have different themes with Purple Moon.
I think that when it comes to mixing and matching different styles, it depends on what items are used. Like, accessories such as purses and hats are "secondary" and clothes like shoes, tops, and skirts/pants are "primary" and have to be a style that matches close to it. Some items are labeled a certain style, but don't go together with it unless it's an accessory item. This also applies with items that have 2 themes. One is "primary"(main) and the other is "secondary"(minor). This can be seen with the "Try it on" animation if they are different. Each brand has a main theme except Purple Moon.
DeleteSo for example, customers will buy a lively outfit that contains 3 brands (April BonBon, Retrobeat, and Marzipan Sky) but not if all 3 brands are primary items. If the other brands are just used as accessories, which are less important, they might purchase it. It was like that in Fashion Forward, so it might be the same way in Styling Star.