How To Force A Villager To Change Clothes?

[Roseology]

I know that's kind of crappy but seriously I'm the mayor and if i want them to wear pink tutus and praise me in their catchphrases SO BE IT.
And sometimes villagers wear like really ugly stuff AND THEY WON'T CHANGE.
Chief is literally wearing a strawberry shirt and I JUST CANT--
But when I ask Isabella to talk to them about changing their clothes they don't??
I sent Beau like 3 deer shirts but he won't wear them either. Any suggestions???

 

[Reindeer]

Just keep sending the stuff to them and eventually they'll wear it.

 

[Leebles]

Thonky's birthday pages list clothes in styles and colors they like. If you cater to their tastes they're more receptive. Also, I TT a lot and don't do many deliveries, so that kinda forces them to wear QR codes a lot of the time. There are tutorials on Tumblr that show you how to fill up the Able Sisters with custom sailor shirts, just like the animes and manger books.

 

[Hoppy~Shnell]

Try sending it 5 times in a row, that usually makes them put it on

 

[Reindeer]

Thonky's birthday pages list clothes in styles and colors they like. If you cater to their tastes they're more receptive. Also, I TT a lot and don't do many deliveries, so that kinda forces them to wear QR codes a lot of the time. There are tutorials on Tumblr that show you how to fill up the Able Sisters with custom sailor shirts, just like the animes and manger books.

Alternatively, if you don't want them wearing QR codes, just put down umbrella designs.

 

[Maruchan]

Pretty much what everyone said lol:

1) Replaced all those ugly default clothes in Able Sis with umbrella designs. Just made up some ultra simple line patterns of your own right then and there, it doesn't matter. Once those are replaced w/umbrella designs the villagers CAN'T wear them. Problem solved.
I did this for my two towns, it worked like a charm <3

2) Send them 5 of the same shirts in a row, at the same time/within one day(?).
Max # of shirts a villager can hold in their home is 3, so they have to wear the one you send them.
(but yes, that would replaced one or more of their furniture of the same size)
Merengue is that one villager who can't seem to keep her shirt on, and by doing these two simple steps, it's the Chef's Outfit forever now. ^__^

 

[FireNinja1]

within one day(?).
Max # of shirts a villager can hold in their home is 3, so they have to wear the one you send them.

Yes, it is within one day.

Also it's 5 and not 4 because there's 3 + 1 that can go in Re-Tail. Just wanted to explain that in case anyone got confused.

 

[mahkala]

♥ here's one way of doing it:
if you make a new person go talk to the villager you want to change clothes;
save after you talk to them till you get the "how dose this look?" thing to happen.
if you don't like what they are wearing close the game without saving and do it again till they're wearing something you like. c:

it might take a while, but, it seems better then sending them a million shirts.

 

[saehanfox]

On their birthday, give them clothing for a present. They will wear it

 

[Luerna]

I find wrapping the shirt before sending it makes it more effective, but that could just be me haha!

 

[Zhot93]

Try sending it 5 times in a row, that usually makes them put it on

This. There was a thread about this and doing this works almos always. Some day we could have a "Villager with cute outfits" thread.

 

[Ryoshiko]

This is good info to know about, Skye keeps wearing the dress shirt and it's like "you're blue and white and wearing an almost plain white top, I can't barely tell you're wearing anything!" it is sooooo boring and almost camouflaged

 

[LyraVale]

I have spent HOURS of my life resetting to get the villagers to wear the clothes I want them to wear. I know that's nutty, and I know it's micro-managing...I don't care. So...here's what I do.

I have 4 characters in town, so I either order 4 copies of the same clothes, or just save with the clothes on a bridge. After I save, I pick it up and walk by the villager. Eventually they spot it in your pockets, and they ask for it. If they don't ask on one character, they'll ask on another character. The reason why they might not ask with one character could be that they recently traded with the character or something. Anyway, eventually they'll ask for the item. NOW, sometimes they will try it on. THAT is when you want to save, and do a happy dance. But if they just take it and put it in their pocket, or worse yet put it in their house, then you'll want to reset immediately and try again.

The only other annoying thing, other than having to reset quite a few times sometimes, is that once you get them to change to the new outfit, they will take the old, ugly, unwanted outfit they were wearing, and put it in their house.

I have a solution for that as well, but it also involves resetting. In that case, you wait for them to ask you to give them a piece of furniture. It has to be a small piece of furniture, or when they tell you it's up to you. Then you save, and get the furniture you want to put in their house. Then the resetting starts. First, you want to make sure they are home before you give the furniture to them, that way you'll see right away where they are putting it. If they don't replace the ugly shirt with it....reset.

It's a big headache, but I actually decided on what everyone in town would wear and put in their houses this way. Yes it was insane and took a lot of time and effort, but in a crazy way, that kind of thing is fun for me. If you're only doing it for one villager, one outfit, it's not going to be that insane.