A strange little side quest
One reason fashion and style keeps producing good game ideas around Blonde Sofia: Bridesmaid is that its history is full of strange turns. By the 1890s, department stores and mail-order catalogs were selling mass-produced ready-to-wear clothes in standardized styles and price ranges. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
