Emily's Magic Shirt
| Emily's Magic Shirt | |
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| Type | Clothing |
| Location | Emily's 14-heart event |
Emily's Magic Shirt is a keepsake rather than a garment. It arrives only at the very end of Emily's story, as part of an outfit she makes by hand for a farmer she has already married, and it is the piece of clothing in the valley that is hardest to come by for reasons that have nothing to do with combat or luck. It takes no dye, which is a pointed detail for a gift from the town's aspiring tailor, and no shop in Pelican Town will buy it. What it does carry is the memory of a long friendship with the woman who unlocked tailoring and dyeing in the first place, which is why farmers who have it tend to keep wearing it long after better-looking shirts turn up.
Location
The route is long and runs entirely through Emily. Her friendship has to climb through every one of her heart scenes, from the dream in her bedroom and the injured bird at her window to the dance in her living room, the fashion therapy at the Mayor's Manor and the camping trip in the Secret Woods. Marriage comes after that, and only a married farmer sees her final scene.
That last scene begins at the farmhouse. Walking out of the door in the early morning starts it, and Emily is waiting outside with an errand: two hundred pieces of Fiber, which is a great deal more than a tidy farm has lying about. Cutting grass and weeds with a scythe is how Fiber is gathered, and the weed-choked floors of the Mines are the fastest source, since the stuff grows back between visits and nothing down there objects to being mown.
Handing the Fiber over is not the end. Three days pass, and then coming home late in the evening triggers the payoff: Emily has sewn a whole outfit and gives it over in one go. The shirt arrives with Emily's Magic Hat, Emily's Magic Boots and a pair of matching blue Genie Pants, so a single scene dresses a farmer from head to foot.
Of the set, the boots are the piece that matters in a fight, since they carry both defence and immunity. The shirt, the hat and the trousers are purely a look, which is rather the point of them.
One warning is worth repeating: the outfit arrives as several items at once, so a backpack with no room to spare can spoil the moment. Emptying a few slots before the third evening is a small precaution against an expensive trip to the Secret Woods.
Notes
Losing the shirt is recoverable. The Lost Items Shop that appears in the Secret Woods, in the far top-left corner of Cindersap Forest, stocks the one-off rewards a farmer has no other way of obtaining again, and it sells a replacement for ten thousand gold. The hat and the boots from the same outfit sit on the same shelf, so an outfit scattered by a full inventory can be bought back a piece at a time.
Getting to fourteen hearts with Emily is easier than with most villagers, because the things she loves are the things a farm produces anyway. Cloth and Wool both delight her, which means a barn of sheep supplies both her gifts and her Sewing Machine, and the gems that come out of any mining run are welcome too. Her birthday falls on Spring 27, and a loved gift on the day earns far more friendship than usual.
Because the shirt takes no dye, it cannot be nudged towards matching anything else. An outfit built around it has to work the other way round, with the other pieces dyed at Emily's own pots to suit the shirt rather than the reverse, which is a quietly fitting way to use the machine she introduced.
All Clothing
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
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| Dyeing | - | - |
| Emily's Magic Shirt | 
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| Luau Skirt | 
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| Mystery Shirt | 
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| Tailoring | - | - |
| Tight Pants | 
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