The Fashion Report

Is there a non-event alternative for the hat? I was unsubbed during the Little Ladies event, thus can't obtain the hat.
Tried Wind Silk Wedge Cap because, well, it has "silk" in its name. Only got 2 stars. Everything else is gold BTW, except the skirt which is 4 stars.
Final score was 78 and I only have one remaining chance to be judged.

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Originally Posted by CodingSession

Is there a non-event alternative for the hat? I was unsubbed during the Little Ladies event, thus can't obtain the hat.
Tried Wind Silk Wedge Cap because, well, it has "silk" in its name. Only got 2 stars. Everything else is gold BTW, except the skirt which is 4 stars.
Final score was 78 and I only have one remaining chance to be judged.

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Are you, or is anyone else, mad enough to try the Snowman Head?

The hint for the challenge in the Japanese version of the game essentially says "top hat", the translation is very poor.

The Snowman Head has a top hat on it....

If the Moogle Slippers are 4 stars, I see no reason why this mad logic isn't worth a try. It seems just like Square's humour to be quite honest.

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Originally Posted by Zaes

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...28/unknown.png

Person I did this with used only Snow White and Soot Black for everything instead and got 90 points. Same exact outfit overall.

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Good to know it doesnt need to be the good dies then.

Any suggestions on legs?

I can't use caster or healers. The long skirt is really expensive since the event started.

If I can get 3 stars I think I can get 80.

CONFIRMED: Meandering Mog Slippers (a red rose with 5 stars will appear on the spot you have fully correct)

Acceptable shoes: Bunny Chief Shoes (unknown for men as of yet as I have no male characters)

You sure it was 5? Cuz the red rose seal in every other screenshot has been four stars, and so far seems to be a step below the gold coin stamp.

I meant 4, it was a typo.

I was just eyeing his little Dragon chick next to him, and she is wearing PRECISELY what you need to wear. The songbird hat, the autumn shirt, the Ureas skirt, the shoes I am unsure as to what they are, but we already know the bridesmaid ones work. So perhaps we just look at her, what she is wearing and determine what it is and go from there.

Considered that a possibility. Will be more convinced if her outfit changes for the next prompt.

Still leaves males without as many options, seems like.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

One star is the lowest rating. The hint is a reference to a specific loyal friend and they don't seem to have contemplated any alternative "friendship-themed" rings linked to a different character.

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Which is rather unfortunate...

As, players can access the gold saucer at level 15.
And can't this also be accessed at the same level?

That would mean that it's possible for players to access the content with no way to get an item necessary, assuming there's no alternative.

Did anybody test out Trailblazer's Vest? Its simple and looks somewhat like the Ramie Vest thing, but is not that expensive.
Or did someone try any of the Kudzu longkilts? normal Long Skirt is on the market for freaking 2m, i cant afford that as well as the mats so i guess they are worth a try, sadly i threw mine away a few months ago.

I wanna try this to score 80 (last attemped, messed around a lot without much succues):
Head: Royal Seneschal's Chapeau (Snow White)
Chest: Trailblazer's Vest (Snow White)
Legs: Kudzu Longkilt of Maiming (jet black)
Feet: Meandering Mog Slippers
Ring: Halonic Friar's Ring

just need to buy mats for the longkilt and farm the ring

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Originally Posted by CodingSession

Is there a non-event alternative for the hat? I was unsubbed during the Little Ladies event, thus can't obtain the hat.
Tried Wind Silk Wedge Cap because, well, it has "silk" in its name. Only got 2 stars. Everything else is gold BTW, except the skirt which is 4 stars.
Final score was 78 and I only have one remaining chance to be judged.

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Augmented Shire Philosopher's Hat, and then you can use the Asuran Hakama of Casting to get gold for the skirt too, but you need RDM, BLM or SMN at 60 for those.

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Originally Posted by TaranTatsuuchi

Which is rather unfortunate...

As, players can access the gold saucer at level 15.
And can't this also be accessed at the same level?

That would mean that it's possible for players to access the content with no way to get an item necessary, assuming there's no alternative.

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Unless there's another solution that nobody has found yet, this appears to be the case, and it seems like a terrible design choice to have a Lv15 quest call for an untradeable Lv50+ item related to a character they won't even meet until further into the story.

i don't understand this; i got all slots gold and he still gave me a... 48? what i was wearing: royal seneschal's hat, flaconer shirt dyed white, asuran hakama of casting dyed black, artisan's sandals, and a halonic ring.

...must not like men. :v

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Originally Posted by killstein

i don't understand this; i got all slots gold and he still gave me a... 48? what i was wearing: royal seneschal's hat, flaconer shirt dyed white, asuran hakama of casting dyed black, artisan's sandals, and a halonic ring.

...must not like men. :v

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Did you wear stuff in the other slots? those count as well, wear on every slots ANYTHING is worth massiv points.
Also dye everything, if you get the right color (snow white/jet black/gold) you get points too.

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Originally Posted by Yubelchen

Did you wear stuff in the other slots? those count as well, wear on every slots ANYTHING is worth massiv points.
Also dye everything, if you get the right color (snow white/jet black/gold) you get points too.

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oh, i didn't actually :c that's such a bummer! ty tho, i'll be sure to do that next time ;_;

Okay, surprisingly the Kudzu Longkilt of Maiming is quite good! 3* but the Tailblazer's Vest could be better

https://imgur.com/gallery/ggKKC

Head: Royal Seneschal's Chapeau (Snow White)
Chest: Trailblazer's Vest (Snow White)
Legs: Kudzu Longkilt of Maiming (jet black)
Feet: Meandering Mog Slippers
Ring: Halonic Friar's Ring

That set got me 76 points, the number on the screenshot was the test before. SO close XD

I'd also be curious to know how the Nameless Hakama (SAM's pants from unlock quest) or similar might do, although might not be considered or pretty low since you can't actually acquire those at all again after the quest.

Out of curiosity, since the survival shirt did decent, I tried the extreme survival shirt (35 craft) and got a 1 star on it (dyed snow white), Scion shoes also got 1 star.

I have level 17 characters on a couple of worlds that are using basic starting quest gear. Both scored 52, getting 1 star ratings on the key item slots. That's much better than I was getting at first (38) with just key item slots equipped even though I had 3 gold coin items. Definitely all slots have an impact on your score so have something equipped in the non-key item slots even if they don't match the theme.

I'm also not really that worried about how this first week characters needed to have items from HW or later to get a high score for the bonus MGP. Just participating earns 10k MGP regardless of score, which is going to be pretty generous to new players just starting to get into the game since it will add up quickly if they just keep participating. With luck, future weeks will have less demanding themes so lower level characters without lots of gil or crafting resources will have their chance to shine.

Did some experimenting with a friend on this. Obviously, system is looking for certain identifiers and I think I can explain some of them after the two of us got our heads together.

We noticed that items that were HQ and dyed with PREMIUM DYE would score higher than the same items NQ and in vendor dye or not dyed at all--with the exception of the items that are rewards and/or not craftable.

This makes sense considering Masked Rose is really Redolent Rose of the Weaver's Guild. Obviously hand-made items of high quality would be of higher value at least from a lore standpoint. So if you can get it HQ I'd do it, though further testing is needed.

And dye really does matter. But I don't think the color does. Just the rarity. Also, actually read his responses because sometimes they offer further clues into what he is actually looking for. (Like the remark about Doman Martial stuff).

So:

Have all slots filled.
HQ SHOULD improve its rating.
Premium Dye (or any dye) WILL improve its rating (Premium Dye is best though).
Read his comments for clues.

Next Fashion Report will have an A+!

Based on earlier testing, HQ does not improve the rating. Specifically, someone tested HQ and NQ bridesmaid slippers and got the same score for each. It's possible, however, that there's some amount of RNG involved, which might explain how so many people are trying nearly identical outfits and scoring anywhere from 78 to 92 despite having the same items (and why some people with a soot black long skirt have it screenshotted as gold while mine was 4-star when I scored it earlier today).

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Originally Posted by CatfishCassie

might explain how so many people are trying nearly identical outfits and scoring anywhere from 78 to 92 despite having the same items

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I suspect the non-hinted slots play an important part of your final score as well. Obviously not wearing anything at all in those slots imposes a huge score penalty so you can see that they do factor into it.

5/5 golds in the hinted slots + random things every else probably gets you to 80/100, and taking the effort to match your other slots to the theme without help is probably what gets you to 90+ and 100. You can think of it like bonus points for going above and beyond.

I haven't had a proper chance to try the Glamour Report yet, unlocked it and had a gander but real life unexpected got me busy so be a while till I can try it. Anyway, would be cool if someone could clear up how exactly it works.

From the understanding it reports you based on Glamour, so do you need to have a gearset(s) with all the required parts glammed and then get it reported or is it a matter of just having the individual gear items in your inventory and place them in the slots to complie the report? If it's a gearset thing then I'm guessing this would work well with the Glamour Plates obviously providing you have the gear in the dresser to do it?

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Originally Posted by Kurando

I haven't had a proper chance to try the Glamour Report yet, unlocked it and had a gander but real life unexpected got me busy so be a while till I can try it. Anyway, would be cool if someone could clear up how exactly it works.

From the understanding it reports you based on Glamour, so do you need to have a gearset(s) with all the required parts glammed and then get it reported or is it a matter of just having the individual gear items in your inventory and place them in the slots to complie the report? If it's a gearset thing then I'm guessing this would work well with the Glamour Plates obviously providing you have the gear in the dresser to do it?

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You dont have to mess with glamour plates if you dont want to, you can just equip the gear. Anything used for an image appraisal gets bound to you, so dont use something you KNOW youre going to sell. The basic idea is that he gives you a couple vague clues on tuesday, and then on friday you can get him to appraise your appearance for how closely you got to the look he was hinting at - the following tuesday it resets for the new week. You get 4 appraisals per week, and hinted slots are appraised 1-5 stars. Reward is 10kMGP for participating, 50k more for scoring well(above 80) - and they hint that the merchant assistant standing nearby will offer more items over time to people who participate. This week he hinted at 5 slots, but you get some points for having things equipped in the other slots too. All the slots seem to have more then 1 item that can score 5 stars, though some are harder to get then others(for instance, this week one of the 5 star hats is from an old seasonal event).

The rest we're still testing and figuring out. Does HQ matter? Dyes seem to help, but theres debate about whether color, rarity, or both are the deciding factor. Is there RNG involved?

As for my contribution to this weeks knowledge(though its a bit late to help most), the Scion Adventurers shirt is only a 1 star, as is the ruby cotton longkilt. I had both on hand and they seemed like they may fit, but no. Scored an 80 with suggested items from this thread and called it good.

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Originally Posted by Ursa_Vonfiebryd

Read his comments for clues.

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Which comments? Those he does while checking your glamour out? When i tried it four times, i got four times the same dialog: he got flowers as a gift and tells you those where roses. (at least he does that in german) So that cant be a hint.

This weeks challenge: A Brave New World
Head: Keeping it Casual
Body: To Adventure
Legs: Go west
Earring: Mighty Minion
Necklace: Cute as a Button

https://i.imgur.com/zY4XGli.png

So, at a wild guess....

- cap
- starter gear shirt
- New World pants
- some kind of novelty earrings I'm not aware of (was thinking chocobo, but it's not a minion)
- ribbon necklace

I assume the Scion Adventurer's Jacket would work too?

My first guess for the earring is the Behemoth earring.

My guess for the earrings is the Behemoth Earrings.

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Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

My first guess for the earring is the Behemoth earring.

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Makes sense. Time to camp the FATE.

I do bleieve there's been several promotional earrings, cactuar, bomb, etc...

Though, I do think finding a non limited option would be nice for those who didn't have a chance to grab those.


For the choker, those ribbon styled ones come to mind.

The "Go West" hint is kind of confusing.
There's no known wild west on Hydaelyn, so it shouldn't be anything with a Western-theme.
The New World is west of Aldenard but we only have 1 New World pants item, which is still pretty expensive on some servers...
The places in Eorzea that we know of that are in the west are Old Sharlayan (which is a separate island farther from Eorzea), New Sharlayan (in Dravania), and Vylbrand (La Noscea, Limsa Lominsa, etc).
Maybe it's referring to the Doman refuges who came to Eorzea (i.e. they went West)? With the ring-slot hint from last week apparently being a reference to Haurchefant and only having rings that can only be found in two dungeons at the only acceptable options, we just can't really know. =A=
Then someone else suggested maybe it's in reference to the story "Journey to the West", which the Eastern Traveling set is based on.

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Originally Posted by TaranTatsuuchi

Though, I do think finding a non limited option would be nice for those who didn't have a chance to grab those.

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The Behemoth ones from the Fate in Western Coerthas "We fought a Dzu" are available for everyone (...who reached that part of the game)

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Originally Posted by TaranTatsuuchi

For the choker, those ribbon styled ones come to mind.

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I was also thinking about the Peach Blossom Choker - for everyone who still has that (or got it in the first place - its from a Little Ladies Day Event a few years back)

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

The New World is west of Aldenard but we only have 1 New World pants item, which is still pretty expensive on some servers...

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They didnt care about that the last time - I should probably not mention that, to not ruin any markets, but... the rare mats you need for the New World pants can be bought for 500 yellow crafting or gathering scrips. So those pants are actually a lot more accessible than the shirts from last time.


I also figured that it might help you guys to get the hints from other languages! My client is in german and I often found that some hints for some riddles are better in english, some are better in german - and more info doesnt hurt, right? So I wanted to give the best translation of our german hints for you to work with aswell!

Head: Casual (German: Leger)
Chest: Expedition (German: Expedition... yeah, no translation needed - maybe a bit context: "Expedition" is a bit different from "Adventure", right?)
Legs: New continent (German: Neuer Kontinent - we're obviously refering to america as the new continent in german - together with the "go west"-hint in english, the New World Pants seem obvious)
Earrings: Accompanies (German: Begleitet - context: Minions are called "Begleiter" in german, so could be a hint to that)
Necklace: To cute for this world (German: Zu süß für diese Welt - same hint as the one for bridesmade-shoes last time)

General Theme: Unknown Lands (German: Unbekannte Lande)

The only thing that comes to mind on the accessory point of view are the Behemoth earrings and the Moogle necklace. Both of which are fairly easy to get if you don't already have them. As for the new world pants with the western thingy that sounds possibly like the gold maybe but a cheaper alternative (currently new world pants are at 2 mill a piece on the MB). Perhaps also the lower SB gathering stuff you can buy from the npc in the Ruby Sea, those kinda have a western feel going on. (Gyuki Leather Chaps)

Or maybe those other ones which are cowboy'esque but I can't of the life of me think what they are called but they were in HW and used by a lot of girls as like legwarmer style bottoms. ORZ

Go West is clearly a reference to the New World in Eorzea. That continent ingame is analogous to the Americas irl which were also regarded as the 'new world' at a point in history. The phrase 'Go West' is itself also a rather well known phrase from that period of American expansion (referring to east coast settlers venturing westwards across the continent).

There's quite clearly a explorer/settler type theme happening this week, which points to the new world gearset as well as tops like the poncho. There's a small selection of cowboy themed gear in the game so it shouldn't be hard to narrow down. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the scion adventurer's jacket fit the bill for the body as well, due to the very obvious hint and the fact that it's quite an accessible option for most people.

The other region regarded as the 'west' in Eorzea is dravania/idyllshire/shalayan in general, as can be seen from the HW introductory DoH quest "Go West, Craftsman". That might be a good place to look to fill out the less obvious slots.

if we're talking wild west then the Wrangler's chaps from Hullbreaker HM/Sohr Kai or the crafted equivalent might work too

i think of:

- Shadded spectacles
- Scion Adventurer's Jacket, Explorer's Tabard, Explorer's Tunic, Adventuring Sweater, or Expeditioner's Coat
- New World Hose
- Behemoth or qiqirn earring
- Peach Blossom necklace, maybe Paramour's Pendant, Platinum Paramour's Pendant or Band of Eternal Passion

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Originally Posted by Iscah

So, at a wild guess....

- cap
- starter gear shirt
- New World pants
- some kind of novelty earrings I'm not aware of (was thinking chocobo, but it's not a minion)
- ribbon necklace

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bahamut earrings! they drop from a fate