Boutique - Mannequins

In New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star, you are able to set up and dress a mannequin at the front of your boutique to advertise outfits to potential customers. There are a few features you can customise on the mannequin such as colour and hair. Mannequins are an excellent way to get rid of excess stock at the boutique and experiment with creating outfits. The mannequin unlocks during the main story line and is only available at the boutique.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Example of a mannequin outfit under the baby-doll theme.

Example of a mannequin outfit under the gothic theme.