Dress to Impress has been played over 2.7 billion times. The Roblox game was released on Nov. 11 2023. Since then, it has only grown in popularity. If you log on to Roblox, the first thing you will see is DTI. Because of its growing following, the game has even made it into an article in the New York Times. Anyone of any age can play DTI.
In each server (round) of the game, you have to take an avatar through various rooms, i.e; doing makeup, styling, hair, and accessorizing your avatar until it fits a specific theme. Themes usually include a phrase that represents it. Some themes might include “just woke up” which would involve pajamas as well as other sleep accessories, and other themes involve popular animated shows like Monster High or Strawberry Shortcake. At the start of each round, the players have five minutes to create an outfit. The player also needs to collect money while moving through the game to pay for clothing and hairstyles.
Once that five minutes is up, the players then head to a staging area where all players in that round will present their looks. While someone’s avatar is present, they can adjust their pose and facial expressions and when someone else’s look is up, they can “vote” for other peoples’ looks by ranking the designs out of five stars. One of the most prominent poses is 28. The pose involves the avatar standing slightly leaned back, with their hands behind their back. On social media platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram, users often poke fun at this pose by posting a video of themselves in real life, recreating the pose and captioning it pose 28.
But why has it become this big? Roblox didn’t have a huge audience before DTI came to fruition. What sets it apart? Maybe it’s competing with other people to have the best outfit, maybe it’s the different poses.
Many social media users debate aspects of the game. Some questions that might spark a heated argument include: what is the appropriate amount of stars to rank someone with? Do certain players have more advantages than others? Whether or not players need to match the theme to become highly ranked?
Though the game is interesting conceptually, the game can sometimes lag. A lot of the makeup and hairstyles are only for people who have reached a certain level. All players tend to only vote three or more stars for themselves which removes the competition aspect of the game to some extent.
Seeing how other people understood a theme and trying to capture it in such a short time might be exciting for some players. People might also be playing for the bonding experience so they can understand when their friends reference the different poses or mention the unfair rankings. DTI is a great game for any competitive person interested in fashion.
