Friday 31 March 2017

Boutique - Designer Item Request

There are a number of different types of requests you will receive from characters who visit your Boutique. The requests are fairly simple to fulfill if you have the correct clothing items in stock that the customer is looking for. Occasionally customers will request an item that you have designed for a brand representative at the Designer Lounge.  

When you have completed a commission request for a brand representative, the item is available in your portfolio. These items are available to sell to customers at your boutique. You cannot sell items you design for yourself via the second floor of your boutique and these can only be worn on your character or on mannequins at the Caprice Chalet.

The customer will usually talk about how they have heard rumours that you have designed a certain item, i.e. bag, shoes or dress. They will request to take a look at the item and the game will bring up the outfit selection screen like normal.


Custom design items appear with a shape around them and are found at the beginning of each clothing item section. The item does not need to exactly match the customers personal style and they will often purchase items that don't match their outfit at all. Select the item to show the customer.


If the customer is pleased with the item you have shown them (which is most of the time with these requests), they will purchase the item


The tricky part about these requests is that you may have deleted the item the customer is looking for from your Designer Portfolio as there is only so much space to store designs. You can reject customer requests for designer items if you do not have the item available. For example, this customer was requesting to look at a customer outer which unfortunately I had deleted from my stock and portfolio to make room for other items and designs. You can either reject the customer request straight away when they ask if you are sure you don't have that item in stock or when you are in the outfit selection screen.



The other thing with these types of requests is that customers will reject the item if they already own it. This happens often as you lose track of what items you have sold to customers before especially if a customer item has been in your inventory for a long time.

Here are some examples of customers wearing designer items, mainly ones that don't match at all.

This customer wore the design t-shirt under that original t-shirt.

The raindrop leggings do not match this outfit at all.

A perfect example of how designer items do not match the customer's original outfit.

For guides on designer commission requests, please refer to the following guides:

Monday 27 March 2017

Character Descriptions - Part 3

In Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3, the characters you will encounter in the game have been given some rather amusing character descriptions. When you click on a NPC, it will bring up a preview of the character and some information about them. It will display their name and some brief information about their personality or hobbies. Some of the profile descriptions are pretty normal, but there are quite a few silly or ridiculous ones.

Here are a few examples of the amusing character descriptions of some of the NPC's in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3. More posts to come because there seems to just be an abundance of these in the game. 





Saturday 25 March 2017

Caprice Chalet Miniatures - Shop Resources

There is a wide variety of miniatures to collect in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy and these can be used to decorate rooms at the Caprice Chalet or at your Boutique. Miniatures fall under different categories and this guide will detail all the Shop Resources items available. Miniatures can be obtained by purchasing them at the Miniatures Shop or by receiving them as gifts through the following methods:
  • Attending events with NPC's characters, i.e. visit the Restaurant with Adelaide.
  • Complete Design Requests from brand representatives.
  • Having your fortune told by Magda who came be found at train station locations.
  • Visiting Sasha's shows at the Live Music Club.
  • Completing modelling requests at the Photo Studio.
  • Purchasing clothes from the Exhibition Hall - once you have purchase a certain amount of items from a brand, the representative will provide you with a special miniature of their clothing.
  • Completing the Fashion Show. Ricky will provide you with a miniature item. 
  • Talking to NPC characters with musical notes.

Here is a list of all the items available in the Shop Resources category in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3.
  • Old-Fashioned Till
  • Black Till 
  • White Till
  • Pop Till
  • Kitsch Till
  • Berry-Themed Till
  • Square Till - Unlock through Events
  • Red Till
  • Cool Till
  • Sweet Shop Till
  • Chocolatier Till
  • Classic Till
  • Ornate Till
  • Tin-Plated Till
  • Pink Till Accessories
  • Green Till Accessories
  • Black Make-Up Palette
  • White Make-Up Palette
  • Scissor Case - Unlock through Events
  • Cheerful Shop Notice
  • Cute Shop Notice
  • Cool Shop Notice
  • Eye Make-Up Testers - Gift From Arabella
  • Foundation Testers
  • Cool Eye Make-Up Testers - Gift From Arabella
  • Cool Foundation Testers
  • Lipstick Display - Gift From Arabella
  • Bright Lipstick Display
  • Cafe Counter
  • Baker's Counter
  • Cafe Menu Board - Unlock through Events
  • Teacup Cafe Sign - Unlock through Events or Photo Studio.
  • Cat Cafe Sign
  • Coffee Grinder Cafe Sign
  • Fast Food Menu Stand
  • Restaurant Menu Stand
  • Stylish Shop Menu Stand
  • Red Gumball Machine - Unlock through Events
  • Classy Gumball Machine
  • Kitsch Gumball Machine
  • Light Shop Display
  • Avant-Garde Shop Display - Unlock through Events
  • Shop Display
  • Hair Salon Cabinet
  • Red Hair Salon Cabinet
  • Green Hair Salon Cabinet
  • Large Hair Salon Mirror
  • Colourful Hair Salon Mirror
  • Wood Frame Hair Salon Mirror
  • Pink Hair Salon Mirror
  • Elaborate Hair Salon Mirror
  • Chic Hair Salon Mirror   
  • Cool Hair Salon Mirror
  • Ornate Hair Salon Mirror
  • Natural Wood Salon Mirror
  • Elegant Hair Salon Mirror
  • Lavish Beautician Mirror
  • Lovely Beautician Mirror
  • Baroque Beautician Mirror
  • Dessert Menu
  • Plain Wood Cafe Shelves
  • Pink Cafe Shelves - Unlock through Events
  • Aged Wood Cafe Shelves
  • Pale Wood Wall Hooks with Bags
  • Dark Wood Wall Hooks with Bags
  • Beautician Counter and Mirror - Unlock through Events
  • Photo Studio Background Screen - Unlock through Events
  • Garden Trellis
  • Old Stained Glass Screen
  • Natural Stained Glass Screen
  • Gold Stained Glass Screen - Unlock through Events or Photo Studio.
  • Green Garden Trellis 



Thursday 23 March 2017

Purple Moon - Red Riding Hood Outfit

The Purple Moon brand in Style Boutique 2 sells a variety of fun costume outfits. The brand is found on the third floor of the Exhibition Hall and the brand representative is Eliza. One of the costume outfits that can be purchased from Purple Moon is the Red Riding Hood outfit. Each item in the outfit costs $990.00

The Red Riding Hood outfit is made up of the following items:
  • Red Riding Hood Tee
  • Red Riding Hood Skirt
  • Little Red Riding Hood
  • Red Mary Janes
  • Big Bad Wolf Bag

The tee and skirt are available in the colours red and black. The Little Red Riding Hood and Red Mary Janes are only available in the colour red. All items in the outfit fall under the Girly and Baby-Doll themes.



Monday 20 March 2017

Caprice Chalet - Fortune Teller Room

At the Caprice Chalet, you can create different themed rooms and rent them to characters in the game. Only certain themed rooms can be rented out to characters and must have specific items placed in them to fit into a rental category. This post will look at the Fortune Teller themed rooms and renting them to characters.

Fortune Teller rooms are pretty simple to explain, they are rooms set up like a Fortune Teller's business. The main item this type of room requires is a crystal ball. Even if you decorate a gothic themed room such as a bedroom and place a crystal ball in it, they may refer to it as a fortune teller room. There are three different coloured crystal balls available to collect in the game. Fortune Teller rooms can be set up with a gothic theme and there is plenty of dark coloured furniture pieces that you can use.



Characters will appear at your boutique with a small house symbol above their head. Select this character and they will tell you how they noticed a room at the Caprice Chalet that had a certain theme. With fortune teller themed rooms, the character ask you if you've heard of the local fortune teller and that they would like to try to do her job.


The character will request to rent the room out and you can either select yes or no. The rental periods for rooms is 24 hours and renting out rooms is a good method for earning money without effort in the game. 


Characters will stay in the Caprice Chalet room for about 24 hours. When you visit the Caprice Chalet, rooms that are rented out will have a small person icon displayed on them. If you select this room during the rental period, the character will tell you how they are going or how business is doing. Visit the room after the 24 hour period and the character is ready to leave the room. They will thank you for allowing them to rent the room and tell you how they went. The character will then pay you the rental fee for using the room. The rental fee for fortune teller themed rooms is $1000.


For more information on decorating rooms and the Caprice Chalet, please refer to Caprice Chalet Master Guide for links to all the Caprice Chalet and Miniatures guides.
 

Saturday 18 March 2017

Brands - Kanokoi

There a variety of brands featured in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3 that cater to all tastes in fashion. One of the brands is Kanokoi which focuses on eastern style fashion. The game lists the following description for the brand "An exotic brand inspired by traditional Chinese and Japanese styles. Includes special seasonal items!" Kanokoi has a wide range of beautiful yukata and kimonos available.


Kanokoi's main image is Eastern and clothing items in the brand also fall under the following images: basic, girly, boho-chic, bold and chic. The brand can be found on the ground floor of the Exhibition Hall and the brand representative is Freddie. For the Kanokoi brand, each section of clothing contains the following amount of items:
  • Inner = 96
  • Tops = 139
  • Outer = 41
  • Trousers =29
  • Skirts = 46
  • Dresses = 67
  • Socks = 36
  • Shoes = 62
  • Leg Warmers = N/A
  • Gloves = N/A
  • Bags = 48
  • Necklaces = 11
  • Scarves = 18
  • Glasses/Earrings/Etc =N/A
  • Headwear = 37


Here are examples of the clothing items from each clothing section that are part of the Kanokoi brand.