I now have a very spacious first floor, a similarly large basement, and a reasonably sized second floor. The basement is basically a storage area for furniture and other items that I'm not 100% on keeping or tossing. The first floor is the main living area, with some basic storage, a corner of Western-themed objects, and 4 NES games. The second floor is serving as an area for quiet contemplation, sparsley decorated with some shrine lanterns, ferns, and a softly moaning gyroid. It is from this room that I formulate the plans for Adamsvil's future.

One of these plans is the implementation of the dress code policy. My villagers are a fickle lot, so at any given moment, I can expect roughly half the town to be code-compliant. At first I was outraged by such bold defiance, but I have since discovered the source of the problem: Able Sisters Tailoring.

Many of the villagers shop there; the current en vogue shirt design is the avant-garde shirt. I imagine it's merely a fad spreading among the younger town members.

Friga models the Adamsvil-approved Noble Shirt.

Bitty wearing the faddish, hideous Avant-Garde Shirt.

More disturbing is when townspeople try to subvert the code by trading away their freely supplied Noble Shirts. I send out at least 2 shirts a day to delinquent Animals, and several of them will continuously try to pawn them off. Admiral - who ought to try for better standing, since he leads Adamsvil's naval unit - once tricked me into delivering his discarded Noble Shirt to his neighbor Grizzly.

It might be a long struggle, but I will continue the daily shirt mailings, if only to shame the rebels into acquiesence. I am also considering replacing all of the Able Sisters' shirt patterns with a hand-designed Noble Shirt pattern. And if none of that works, I'm sure my new second floor thinking suite will yield fresh ideas for subordinating my people.