Never let Rainbow’s ridiculous requirements ruin your playthrough again! If you have a free Notion account, select the ‘duplicate’ option in the top right to copy this to your own Notion workspace to keep track of which colors you’ve gotten.

Style Savvy: Fashion Forward Colors

I DID NOT FIND ALL OF THESE!!!!! I just formatted them into the table. Special thanks to this color guide on the Style Boutique 2 Guide blog (which is a full DECADE old christ i am old) for providing the data. If you’re having trouble getting any specific color, check out the comments on that post and see if anyone else had troubles and what solution they found. If there’s anything you know is an error feel free to reach out to me to correct the spreadsheet, however! Preferably with a screenshot proving the error (like a picture taken in the afternoon when the spreadsheet shows it’s morning only).

Certain events that require talking to an NPC (like redcurrant cake or exotic grape) can be hard to trigger. You may have to reload your game or return to the area a few times until the color shows up. Just keep trying. If you’re unable to find a specific color no matter how many times you go to a location, most notably Celebration Pink, it may be invite event only. You’ll have to wait until you’re invited to that location by an NPC. Make sure to snap loads of pictures whenever there’s a special event in the story, just in case!

Here’s my recommended pathway to getting all the colors without too much hassle, as someone who’s beaten Fashion Forward several times through:

  1. Early game: Play normally at first, but take a lot of screenshots. Take note of what colors are available in your current IRL season and pay special attention to getting those pictures as the associated areas open up, but you don’t have to worry about it too hard at this point, just take as many pictures as you can. If you’re playing at different times of day, you can probably get a good number of colors this way without going out of your way at all. The backgrounds of each area will cycle through several shots; each time you enter an area for the first time (or for the first time at a new time), you can save time by just snapping a screenshot of all of them and then cross-reference with the spreadsheet later when reporting to Rainbow so you don’t waste your time showing her photos you don’t need to.
  2. Early-mid game: As each area, especially the train areas, open up, like before, stay on every screen until it cycles through all possible shots and take a picture of each one, including the background of places where you talk to NPCs. Now start making note of times, especially if you usually play at about the same time of day IRL: check every single color you can get in your current season and see what colors you haven’t gotten, take note of the time and place, and go for those, either by playing at different times of day if you can or time traveling if you play at the same time every day. Most especially make sure you get Celebration Pink whenever you get invited to the Restaurant, which IIRC will usually be tied to story progression first.
  3. Mid-late game: Once every area in the game is open, now is the time for the color grind we all remember and hate. Make sure you have every color available in your season, as this will massively reduce your grind. Then check out every other season and take note of every time and place requirement: if you’ve gotten all currently-available colors, it should only be a few, and winter should be the only season where you’re required to enter the game at two different times. Just go into your system clock, change the time + date, snap those photos, and repeat. Then return to your original time. Check for any last colors you’ve missed, and you’ve gotten them all with minimal time-traveling required!