Tailor Archive
Thread: New to tailoring
You mean this?
What sells well is different for everyone. We're all on different galaxies and even planets/cities have their own fashion trends. Regardless though, Field Wear usually sells the best anywhere. Gunbunnies will usually want some kind of military look.
Your vendor idea is a good one. One of the many times I thought of opening a vendor I was only going to stock Field clothing. Specializing in one tree will keep shoppers from being overwhelmed by too many types of clothing and will allow you to stock more color variations on items.
Dex1138 wrote:
Regardless though, Field Wear usually sells the best anywhere. Gunbunnies will usually want some kind of military look.
Hmm, I dunno. I guess I would have to disagree there. To me I think the arguments for doing fieldwear first would be if you were a grind-a-holic and were counting down the minutes until you got the master title, that could be a reason to do it. The other reason is because you get perhaps the most compelling items for putting bio engineering tissues into in fieldwear.
The downsides though are that you get much much fewer viable clothing items in fieldwear. There's only a half dozen or so spread through the 4 boxes of fieldwear that I've had much luck selling. The rest of that line gives you a bunch of crappy boots, belts, and bandoliers, which tend to be very very poor sellers. Also, you won't have much luck doing "outfits" of any kind with the fieldwear line, as you'll have virtually no shirts, hats, vests, or anything at all to sell to the ladies, entertainers in general, or even wookiees. The other problem with fieldwear, at least this was a problem some months ago, was that since most novice tailors do fieldwear first for grinding purposes, those items tend to be oversold, so although there are some very popular items in there, those items tend to be the bread-and-butter for a lot of novices and price wars can ensue pretty quickly.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 03-09-2004 03:08 PM
Just in general, FW sells better. But I wasn't a grind-o-holic and went up Casual first, which has lots of easy to sell stuff as you go up.
I went up tailoring equally, getting all of the first row before going for tailor experimentation first at each newrow (more colors!). I had a wide variety in the vendor of what sold the most, but put only field wear and entertainer wear on the bazaar until I set up my last shop location and stopped using the bazaar at all.
Playstyles and merchant styles differ widely here, and all work equally well. Depends mostly on how you want to play, how much effort and time you have to put into running the vendors and what kind of tailor shop you want to have, if any. Some tailors are Travelling Tailors and have no shop and use no vendors. They do all their sales on the bazaar, mail ordersand on the spot custom orders.
If you are going to have a single vendor specializing in field wear and BE enhanced field wear as well, and IF you advertise that fact well and often, they will come. Reliably stocked BE vendors are few and far between.
