Luau Skirt
| Luau Skirt | |
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| Type | Clothing |
| Location | Island Trader |
| Price | Taro Root (50) |
The Luau Skirt is a holiday souvenir with a terrible pun for a description, and getting one is a small expedition. It is sold on Ginger Island by the bluebird at the Island Trader's stall, who deals only in goods and wants fifty Taro Roots for it, so the skirt is really the end of a farming project rather than a shopping trip. It takes no dye and no shop in the valley will buy it back, and it is one of only two pairs of legwear the Sewing Machine refuses to make or remake. That combination makes it a fixed, unchangeable look, which is unusual for a game where almost every garment can be recoloured on a whim.
Location
Ginger Island comes first, and that is a long road. The Community Center has to be finished, or the Joja warehouse completed, before Willy's boat in the back of his shop can be repaired with hardwood, iridium bars and battery packs. Each crossing then costs a thousand gold.
The Island Trader is a separate unlock on top of that. The bluebird sets up on the north side of the island, and a parrot asks for ten Golden Walnuts before the stall opens, which in practice means the Island Farmhouse has been bought already. Gold is no use at the counter: everything on the bird's shelf is a barter, and Taro Root is its favourite currency.
Growing the Taro Root is the real work. A Taro Tuber goes in the ground and comes up as a Taro Root after ten days, and planting within a few tiles of water cuts that to seven and means the crop never needs watering at all. Ginger Island's own fields grow it in every season, so a patch beside the island's river or pond quietly produces roots all year while the farmer is elsewhere. The tubers themselves come from the same bluebird for a couple of Bone Fragments each, which makes the whole supply chain self-contained: trade bones for tubers, plant them by water, trade the harvest back for the skirt.
Fifty roots is a serious order, and the Taro Root is in demand elsewhere. The same stall trades roots for a Warp Totem back to the farm, a Tropical TV, a cap, a Bluebird Mask and a Cowboy Hat, so a farmer saving for the skirt is competing against their own shopping list. Leo also mails over the recipe for Poi, which eats roots four at a time. Planting more than seems necessary is the usual advice.
Notes
Because the skirt cannot be tailored, it cannot be used as a base for anything either. A farmer who wants a different look has to take it off and wear something else; there is no reworking it at the machine the way most garments allow.
The name is a joke at the valley's expense rather than the island's. Pelican Town's own Luau takes place on the beach on Summer 11, with the whole town gathered round the Governor's soup pot, and the skirt would be perfectly at home there despite coming from several hundred miles of ocean away. Wearing it to the festival is the kind of detail players enjoy for its own sake.
For anyone who has already cleared the island, the skirt is also one of the last things left to spend Taro Root on. A crop that grows itself beside the water with no watering and no attention tends to pile up, and turning a chestful of it into something to wear is a more satisfying end than the shipping bin.
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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