Mannequins, a hack

Unfortunately there isn't. You'd have to first own the place (as a store or home), dress them, then move out/sell it.

@DeadFishy What I usually do is make a sim just for this purpose. I move them into a house, cheat their money, and have them buy the store. I have them dress the mannequins, then I have them sell the store. That way the mannequins will be dressed, while not having to restock the store constantly. If you're on PC and open to using mods, there's this mod by littlemssam that allows, among other things, dressing mannequins as a customer.

I use mannequins as decor alot, the trick is to save them when dressed as mentioned, but it works even without a retail lot.
You dress a mannequin with a sim and then save them as a room (just make a very small room just for the mannequin and save that), you can now place that room on any lot in bb and the mannequin will stay dressed, even if you move it.
I made a couple of "statues" this way.
Only thing to keep in mind is that the mannequin will only show as dressed if the lot its on is the active lot.

"ValravnWitch;c-18312380" wrote:
I use mannequins as decor alot, the trick is to save them when dressed as mentioned, but it works even without a retail lot.
You dress a mannequin with a sim and then save them as a room (just make a very small room just for the mannequin and save that), you can now place that room on any lot in bb and the mannequin will stay dressed, even if you move it.
I made a couple of "statues" this way.
Only thing to keep in mind is that the mannequin will only show as dressed if the lot its on is the active lot.

That’s genius! Will keep this noted for the future

Some of my Sims have used the mannequins to proudly display their Secret Society regalia from college, or their film costumes.

I don't know why it never occurred to me to add a costumes exhibit to the Plumbob Pictures Museum, but now I want to figure out how I'm going to make that happen.

Buy the store as another sim and set it up, and switch to main household? Would that work

"MrPlumbob;c-18312371" wrote:
@DeadFishy What I usually do is make a sim just for this purpose. I move them into a house, cheat their money, and have them buy the store. I have them dress the mannequins, then I have them sell the store. That way the mannequins will be dressed, while not having to restock the store constantly. If you're on PC and open to using mods, there's this mod by littlemssam that allows, among other things, dressing mannequins as a customer.

I’m on a Mac but I would totally be into that!!

I'm going to try these tips.. now where do I find the mannequins?

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