Since the May poll was successful, a new poll was added to the blog for the month of June. The question was 'What is your favourite image in Style Boutique 2?' and there was 117 votes in total!
So the results are in and there was a few ties again this month. The results have been tallied and here are the results :
1st = Girly
2nd = Baby-Doll & Gothic
3rd = Feminine
4th = Bold
5th = Rock, Chic and Preppy
6th = Retro
7th = Lively & Boho
8th = Eastern
No Votes = Basic & Sporty
The new poll for the month of July is 'What is your favourite job in Style Boutique 2?' To vote, simply scroll down the side bar and the poll is under the game box images. If you cannot view the poll, please visit the blog using the web version. The blog is not available in mobile view on some devices. If you are on a mobile, select 'View web version' at the bottom of the page.
Excited to see what everyone's favourite job is in the game. Mine is Boutique owner as I love designing outfits and getting to use all the wonderful clothing items in the game.
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 kitchen themed rooms and
renting them to characters.
Kitchen themed rooms are pretty simple, they are set up like a kitchen you would find a house or apartment. There are plenty of kitchen and cooking themed miniatures you can use to decorate the room with but there are some key miniatures required. Kitchen rooms require a Retro Cooker and/or Retro Kitchen Cabinet to be placed somewhere in the room. These items come in three different colour combinations and are found under the Furniture category. Other kitchen and cooking themed miniatures include kettles, stewpot and other food themed miniatures. Kitchen themed rooms are simiular to banquet rooms and if you place the Plate and Cutlery item in the room, characters will refer to the room as a the banquet room.
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 kitchen themed rooms, characters will talk about how they having been cooking lately and they saw the kitchen room at Caprice Chalet which inspired them to cook more.
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 kitchen 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.
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.
There are two Nintendo themed Yukata's available for download as a DLC set. The yukatas are themed around the characters Princess Peach and Rosalina. The Princess Peach yukata is based on her famous pink dress and the Rosalina yukata is based on her blue dress and her companion Luma. All
DLC in Style Boutique is free to download and requires an e-shop
account. DLC items can only be worn by your own character and cannot be
sold
in your boutique. To
download DLC, select the Add-on Items option on the game's start menu.
Press the Select Add-on Items option and it will redirect you to the
e-Shop. Next you will be taken to a menu that displays all the DLC
available for download in your region. The Yukata DLC packs are currently available for Girls Mode 3 (Japan), Style Boutique 2 (Europe and Australia) and Style Savvy 3 (North America).
The picture below showcases the items from the Japanese advertisement.
The yukatas come in two seperate DLC packs and each pack features one yukata. The yukatas can be accessed
through the wardrobe option at your Apartment. Both items belong to the Purple Moon brand.
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| Peach's Yukata |
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| Rosalina's Yukata |
For more information on the special DLC items available in the game, please visit the DLC guide.
In
Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3, you can hold fashion shows and walk on
the catwalk as a model. There are a variety of fashion show themes to
choose from and once you have sold enough tickets to hold the show, you
get to choose the outfit you wish to wear in the show as well as your
make-up and hairstyle.
At
the end of each fashion show, the game awards you a rating out of five
based on how well your overall outfit matched the theme of the show. For
a detailed guide on themes and taking part in fashion shows, please
refer to the Fashion Show guide. The
game does not give you hints at what specific style will fit the theme
and bases your final score on how well your outfit, hairstyle and makeup
matches the theme. Multiple styles fall under each category and you
need to pick the one you feel best matches the theme.
This
guide will look an outfit that received a five star rating under the unique category. The theme
for this fashion show was a summer outfit for the holiday and was the rainbow star theme
icon on the theme menu screen. The venue used was the fifth venue on the
venue list which is the yellow hued one.
Now for the outfit. The clothing items used to create this outfit were:
- Retrobeat - Retro Acorn Print Shirt (Blue/Green/Pink)
- Retrobeat - Eye Pattern Tutu (Pink)
- April Bonbon - Dripping Paint Knee Socks (Pink)
- Retrobeat - Lame Gradiant Flats (Purple)
- Retrobeat - Scarf-Pattern Bow
The
hairstyle used is the Afro with a light blue and pink colour combination. The make-up set used was the Galactic Ranger set with the default
colours (no adjustments made to the set).
After
selecting ok after the outfit menu screen, Laurie provided a hint that
the outfit fitted the unique theme of the fashion show. Next
it was time to hit the catwalk! Here's some screenshots of my character
modelling the five star outfit. Be sure the click the effects buttons
when taking part in fashion shows as they help hype up audience
interest.
Time
to see the final score. The outfit fitted perfectly with the unique
theme and received five stars. The tricky part with achieving five star
outfits is matching the hair and make-up to the theme. A good tip is to
pick make-up sets with a good colour palette and match the feel/colour
of your clothing items.
After
this, Ricky and Laurie will talk to your about your performance. If you
have an outfit that is 3 stars or higher, they will usually give you
praise. Other
NPC's will appear as well giving you feedback about your outfit. Ricky will appear afterwards and give you a miniature
item as a gift. You do not receive a special miniature for achieving
five stars.
Whilst trying to figure out how to get five stars in the Unique category, I tried a bunch of different outfits (none of which were successful). Here is an outfit that almost made it to five stars and is similar to the outfit that one. This outfit had more accessories and the hairstyle did not match the unique theme. With the five star outfit, I kept the same top but altered the rest of the outfit to fit the summer theme. The hairstyle was changed to the Afro which is a unique hairstyle and the same make-up set was used.
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 Cheerleader outfit. Each item in the outfit costs $990.00.
The Cheerleader outfit is made up of the following items:
- Cheerleading Shell
- Cheerleading Skirt
The Cheerleader outfit is available in the following colours: white/red, navy/white and red/white. All items in the set fall under the Lively and Sporty theme.
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 model themed rooms and
renting them to characters.
Model themed rooms are any room that a character refers to as one that they can practice their modelling skills in. These types of rooms are either set up like a photo studio or have a mannequin placed in them. To decorate a room like a photo studio, it is ideal to use the photo themed miniatures that you received as gifts from Sasha and Zoey. The photo studio room pictured below shows examples of photo themed miniatures and how to set them up. The garden room pictured shows a room that a customer refers to as a model room. It has a mannequin placed in the room and meets no requirements for any other type of room.
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 model themed rooms, the character will talk about how love seeing your posters around town and how you are such a good model. They will talk about how they would love to try to be a model and would like to borrow the room to practice.
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 model 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.
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 Chorale Prelude
that focuses on selling a range of handbags, purses, satchels and many
other styles of bags. Chorale Prelude is the sister brand to Chorale and
the game lists the following description for the brand "Chorale's
sister brand carries fine handbags, clutches and suitcases to embody a
dainty, feminine style." The brand has a wide range of bags available
and the bags are available in a range of colours.
Chorale
Prelude's main image is feminine and items in the brand also fall under
the following images: basic, girly, baby-doll, chic and preppy. The brand can be found on the second floor of the Exhibition Hall and the brand representative is Lettie. The brand is known as Mezzo Flute in the Japanese version of the game (Girls Mode 3). For the Chorale Prelude brand, only bags are available for purchase and there are 301 items to collect from the brand.
Here are examples of the different types of bags that are part of the Raven Candle brand.
Hello! Marzipanini here with a little blog update. First off, I would like to thank everyone who reads my Style Boutique 2: Fashion Forward Guide blog. I started this blog almost a year ago just to share information on where to find colours, make-up sets and random posts about the amiibo and DLC content. Never did I think it would still be running today! I'm so happy that people have been able to discover new things about the game and find useful guides. So thank you to everyone who visits my blog and I hope you continue to visit in the future :)
Last month, I added a poll to the blog just for fun. It ended up getting over 93 votes! So here's the results about what is everyone's favourite brand in Style Boutique 2 (there was a lot of ties for places):
- 1st = Marzipan Sky & Marble Lily
- 2nd = Enid Chen
- 3rd = Purple Moon & Raven Candle
- 4th = AZ-USA & Chorale
- 5th = Brooke Bridge
- 6th = Kanokoi, Stage Dive & Retrobeat
- 7th = April Bonbon
- 8th = ARIANNA
- No Votes = Basic U, Chorale Perlude, Soy & Streetflow
I will add a new poll to the blog soon and you can vote for your favourite style/image in the game. It was interesting to see people's favourite brands and I can say Marzipan Sky is my favourite brand in the game as well.
There's still lots of guides to be posted and there's still a few in the Caprice Chalet series coming up. The Purple Moon clothing guides are still going because there is so many outfits to be purchased in that brand. If you have ideas for a guide you'd like to see, please leave a comment and I will add it to my list of ones to make. Sometimes it can take a while to make a guide due to my own commitments or it takes a while to research the information, but thank you everyone for being patient with waiting for guides.
If you are interested in reading a play journal of my activities in Style Boutique 2, I have one on my other blog Marzipan Wonderland. I'll be posting it on that blog (which is my personal blog) as this one is just limited to guides and tips about the game. I post about a bunch of other topics as well (like music and sewing), so take a look if you are interested :)
Hope you enjoyed this update, thank you for visiting and stay tuned for lots of interesting guides about Style Boutique 2 and Style Savvy 3 in the future!
Throughout
the game, the main NPC's will visit your boutique to request new
outfits. Some characters request new outfits for an event or as their
normal outfit they wear in game. Each character has their own personal
style and a list of each characters style can be found here.
Zoey is the photographer who works at the local Photo Studio and will be the one taking photos of you when you complete photo shoot requests or design your own photo shoots. Zoey will visit you boutique requesting a new outfit to wear when she does a speech on stage at Bun-Bun Funland.
Zoey's
personal style is preppy and likes items from the Brooke Bridge brand. Select the image 'preppy'
and design an outfit based around this
style. Remember to choose clothing items appropriate for the season,
i.e. you cannot wear just a tank top in winter as the character will
remark how they will get cold. Each character will have a budget you
will need to stay within and you can go slightly over the budget by
about $80. Once you are happy with the outfit, select Ok.
You
can select either 'Try It On' or 'Take A Look' when showing the
character the outfit you have chosen. Select the 'Try It On' option if
you are confident they will like the outfit or if you select 'Take A
Look', you will get 3 tries to try to impress the character with an
outfit.
If
you chose 'Try It On' and the character is highly impressed with the
outfit, the game will play a short animation showing the character in
their new outfit. The background of the animation changes depending on
the style the character is wearing.
Looks
like Zoey is impressed with her new outfit. She will tell you what
aspects she likes about it and usually will comment on how preppy it is.
During this scene, characters will give you hints on the styles and
colours that they look for in an outfit. Zoey likes preppy items that have minimal patterns such as stripes or checks as well as accessories such as bags or glasses.
After
this, Zoey will pay you for the outfit and the amount is added to
your money in-game. Zoey will comment that they outfit was just what she was looking for and is perfect for her performance at Bun-Bun Funland. She will invite you to visit her at the Bun-Bun Funland which can be accessed via the train station. You do
not need to meet her immediately and can visit whenever you like. However, you will be unable to accept modelling jobs or take photos yourself at the Photo Studio until you have visited Zoey at the Bun-Bun Funland. When you visit Zoey, she will give you a special photo studio miniature item as a gift.
In
Style Boutique 2, a story line appears that features Lenore requesting
for you to showcase a gothic themed outfit to her. This story line
appears at no specific time within the game and appears more than once.
The story line usually appears after you have completed the Five Sisters story line.
Visit Taylor Arcade and two NPC characters may appear with a star symbol
above them. These NPC's are Lenore and Blake who are Leonora
from the Five Sisters in disguise and her Butler. Lenore will talk about searching for someone who best
represents her favourite fashion style which is the gothic theme. If you
are wearing a gothic themed outfit, Lenore will comment on your outfit
and Blake will request to take a photo of the two of you. If you are
not wearing a gothic outfit, Lenore will inform you she is still on the
look out for someone wearing a gothic outfit. She will reappear again if
you miss out at another time in the future.
If you are able to take a photo with Lenore, Blake will tell you to get ready and your character will do a special pose.
After
this, Lenore and Blake will compliment you on the photo and thank you
for your time. Lenore will talk about Peony Hall in the Meadows which is
where they live. In addition to this story line, the other Sisters will
appear around town requesting outfits based off their favourite styles.
Leonora can also be found around the city talking to the girls.
When customers visit your boutique, they will request an outfit of a certain image. But sometimes when you go to choose items for the outfit, you'll suddenly find out that you don't have items that match the required theme. But you're in luck as in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3, you can combine images together and customers will be happy. This guide will look at what images can be combined together with outfits and which ones match with others.
There are fourteen images (or styles) available in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3. The images convey a variety of styles and looks. Images can be combined together to create an outfit and don't just have to feature one style. For example, a customer will come into your boutique requesting a sporty outfit. When selecting the outfit, you discover that you have no sporty shoes in stock. Instead you can select basic shoes to use for the outfit as basic matches with sporty.
You need to be careful when combining images as customers will comment how an outfit has too many styles and refuse to purchase it. The picture below shows an example of a mannequin displaying an outfit that customers refused to buy due to clashing images. The trick with combining images is to have only one or two items in the outfit that belong to a different image to the one mentioned by the customer. For example, a Boho-Chic outfit features 4 items that are boho themed and 1 that is easterned themed.
Here is a list of image combinations that work well when creating outfits.
- Lively + Girly
- Lively + Psychedelic
- Lively + Sporty
- Preppy + Feminine
- Preppy + Girly
- Basic + Feminine
- Sporty + Basic
- Boho + Eastern
- Chic + Feminine
- Chic + Bold
- Girly + Feminine
- Girly + Preppy
- Gothic + Baby-Doll
- Psychedelic + Lively
- Baby-Doll + Girly
- Bold + Rock
