Wardrobe
Change the outfit that your character is wearing. Your wardrobe contains the following items:
- Items you have purchased at the Exhibition Hall.
- Items you have designed through Designer Lounge Requests.
- Items you have designed yourself.
- Items you have downloaded from Caprice Chalet rooms (including other players designs).
- Amiibo items you have scanned into the game.
- DLC items you have downloaded.
Make-up
Here you can change the make-up your character is wearing. There are two options to chose: Use a existing make-up set or custom make-up. The custom option allows you to chose what colour/style/type of each make-up item you would like. This is ideal for when you are trying to get that certain look, i.e. crazy purple eye shadow with bright blue lipstick.
Designer Collection
This is where you can view clothing items you have downloaded from other players at the Caprice Chalet room. Designer Collection is similar to your portfolio as it showcases designs of clothing. Designs can be deleted from your portfolio. For more information, please refer to the Designer Collection guide.
Fashion Scrapbook
If you are in love with an outfit you are wearing, you can save it to your Fashion Scrapbook. The Fashion Scrapbook saves the entire outfit and selecting the outfit will dress your character in the outfit automatically. When meeting brand representatives for the first time, they will provide you with a complimentary outfit. These can be saved to the Fashion Scrapbook. In the photo below, four of the outfits have a stamp next to them that symbolises which brand the outfit is from. The outfit in the top right hand corner has no stamp as it is a custom outfit made from your wardrobe.
Save Menu & Change Currency
There are two small icons in the top left hand corner of the menu screen. The key icon allow you to save the game and return to the game menu screen. The coin icon allows you change the currency the game uses. I have the Australian version of the game, so I use the dollar sign currency.
Can you change what your apartment looks like? It seems like the dollhouse could work for that, but if you can I haven't figured it out yet.
ReplyDeleteIn this installment, you are unable to change what your apartment looks like. You could in the previous game, but now it's just limited to these options at the apartment.
DeleteThe dollshouse is just for making rooms for the dollshouse.
I have the North American version of the game and it doesn't have the option to change currency! (Someone actually said they removed it for some reason and that was the only thing they did for the US version)
ReplyDeleteWith all the British spelling terms (colours, "mum", etc.), phrases, Preppy fashion is extremely British, I think they should have just kept the game set in England and therefore pounds should be the only currency. It just feels weird with all this UK stuff and yet they can only use US dollars
I did not know the option was removed in the NA version, how interesting. I have the Australian version so I have mine set to dollars which would've worked in NA as you use dollars as well.
DeleteI think they just kept all the UK English terms as it was quicker to just translate one version for the West rather than two. The game is more set in a fictional town rather than England and I believe Preppy fashion is a take off a sub-style in Japan. I've had a number of players note that the UK English spelling annoys them.
Preppy looks way more British to me. Wikipedia says "preppy" is an American subculture though it's British inspired. I also noticed North American public schools don't require uniforms but UK schools often do. I can kind of see how the style in the game is a bit Japanese but most of it looks way more UK.
DeleteThe robes, patterns, uniforms, hats, everything almost fits the United Kingdom culture to a tee. You could almost create the different Hogwarts uniforms from Harry Potter with the robes if you match one of the red/blue/green/yellow colors together. The "train conductor" hats are especially British because old-fashioned trains are a British influence for example Thomas the Tank Engine and its original book The Railway Series. And the flat caps give off an Irish "cabbie" driver influence according to my mom.
Also I think the fictional town from this game is definitely set in the UK also because of the European influence (Caprice Chalet especially with all its miniatures) and the expressions (Bits and Bobs, anyone?) are too British for any other place.
I was referring to preppy more as a term for the style in general, but refering to the preppy style popular in Japan. All the brands and styles in the Style Boutique series are modelled off fashion sub-styles popular in Japan as the game is made primarily for that market. I do love preppy fashion however as I love the uniform look and skirt plus socks combo.
DeleteThe Harry Potter thing is spot on! I have seen a number of players doing Harry Potter themed outfits or challenges in the game. Whilst I'm not a potter fan myself, I have created a few outfits in the game inspired by the uniforms.
I'm not sure where the fictional town is set officially, I think it's more of a general fashion focused city design that the developers liked. The text used in the game is definitely British influenced as the Western release of the game uses UK English rather than US English.