Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fashion Options Have Me Hyped

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There's nothing quite like rocking a fresh outfit comprised of a combat helmet and a bath towel on your island vacation. You can do that in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which we got to experience during a hands-on demo at PAX East 2020. In it, we saw just how much the Able Sisters shop has expanded with a larger catalog of clothing and accessories--shirts, jackets, dresses, pants, skirts, hats, helmets, glasses, shoes, socks...it was pretty overwhelming to put an outfit together.

Animal Crossing has given us customization options since its inception, letting you draw your own patterns and apply them to shirts and hats (or use as wallpaper) in the original, and expanding a bit more in follow-ups City Folk and New Leaf. However, New Horizons presents the biggest suite of options for the series thus far, which you can see in the video below (between 4:53 and 6:34).

What's more is that you can preview all clothing and accessories to see how they look on your character before buying anything. It's a quick and simple way to coordinate an outfit and purchase what you want in one fell swoop. Also, every time you select a different clothing item, your villager strikes a new pose and it's the cutest thing I've ever seen in Animal Crossing.

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