Tight Pants
| Tight Pants | |
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| Type | Clothing |
| Location | Desert Festival |
Tight Pants are a souvenir of Emily's makeover booth at the Desert Festival, and they arrive by accident rather than by choice. Emily picks an outfit she feels suits the farmer, the farmer walks out of the hut wearing it, and now and then the trousers in that outfit turn out to be these. They cannot be made or remade at a Sewing Machine, which puts them in a very small club, but they do take dye, so a pair can at least be recoloured to taste at the pots in Emily's house. Since the festival comes round once a year and hands out a limited number of outfits, collecting them is a matter of returning each spring and hoping.
Location
The Desert Festival runs in the Calico Desert on Spring 15, 16 and 17, and reaching it means the bus has to be working, which in turn means the Vault bundles at the Community Center or the Joja route. The festival opens at ten in the morning.
Emily's outfit service sits in a hut on the festival ground. Stepping inside triggers a short scene in which Emily chooses the clothing she thinks "embodies the farmer", and the farmer's previous outfit drops neatly into the inventory rather than vanishing. The service runs once a day, so three festival days means three outfits at most, and the hut refuses a second visit on the same day with Emily insisting the farmer already looks wonderful. On days when Emily is busy running her own market stall, Sandy steps in after a moment's hesitation and does the honours instead.
What comes out is random, and the pool is large. Each outfit is a shirt and a pair of trousers, sometimes with a hat on top, and some outfits are offered only to male farmers and some only to female ones, which changes the odds of any particular piece appearing. Tight Pants sit in a handful of those outfits. The best known pairs them with a Dark Ballcap and a Skeleton Shirt, which is the only outfit in the set to combine the trousers with a hat, and the rest put them with a plain dark shirt or a brightly dyed top. Each of those outfits dyes the trousers a different colour on the way out, so two pairs collected in different years may not look alike at all.
The practical odds are low enough to need patience. A male farmer sees them a little more often than a female farmer, and in either case most visits to the hut produce something else entirely. Three attempts a year is the hard ceiling, which makes this one of the few garments in the game that genuinely cannot be rushed.
Notes
The trousers take dye, and that matters more here than it would elsewhere. Because they cannot be tailored, the dye pots at Emily's house are the only way to change them, and the pots can take them anywhere on the colour wheel using the hue, saturation and value sliders. A pair that arrived in a colour nobody asked for can be fixed in one visit.
Nowhere in the valley will buy them, so there is nothing to do with a duplicate except keep it. On the other hand there is nothing to lose by accepting a second pair either, since the outfit that replaces them goes straight into the bag.
The festival is worth the trip regardless of what the hut hands over. Calico Eggs bought with race winnings, quiz answers and errands pay for furniture, hats, books and bombs, Emily sells Cloth at her own stall for anyone building a wardrobe the ordinary way, and the free cactus from the salesman at the bottom of the map is given out once a festival to anyone with a spare inventory slot.
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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