Krillion Recorded answers
3,560 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from the edges inward. Begin by recalling costume-history literature rather than shop terminology: survey volumes, ethnographic atlases and museum catalogues are full of named garments, and each entry there is a candidate. Move through the world region by region in your head, asking what a community's distinctive outfit is called in its own spelling, and prefer the transcription that locals use over a translated label. Test each candidate mentally against the wording of the question: it must be a dress or a complete outfit worn as one, not an accessory, a textile or a hairstyle. Finally, rank your shortlist by obscurity and submit the least familiar name you can defend, because the scoring rewards the deep end of the list rather than the first thing that comes to mind.
Get a hint
Begin at the widest frame: the puzzle accepts an enormous number of entries, so nearly every recognised garment name in the costume literature has a home here.
A little more
Narrow by source type — ethnographic studies, regional dress surveys and museum accession records list thousands of named pieces that never appear in ordinary fashion writing.
One step further
Then push toward the least familiar end: a name recorded in a single locality, written the way its own community spells it, usually outscores anything a general reader could produce unaided.
Reveal answers 3,560
- Poplin dressRare60points
- Prairie dressRare60points
- Puff sleeve dressRare60points
- QipaoRare60points
- Quinceañera dressRare60points
- Race day dressRare60points
- Racerback dressRare60points
- Reception dressRare60points
- Renaissance dressRare60points
- Revenge dressRare60points
- Reversible dressRare60points
- Ruched dressRare60points
- Ruffle dressRare60points
- Sailor dressRare60points
- Salwar kameezRare60points
- SariRare60points
- Satin dressRare60points
- School dressRare60points
- Scoop neck dressRare60points
- Seamless dressRare60points
- Semi-formal dressRare60points
- Sequin dressRare60points
- Sheath dressRare60points
- Shift dressRare60points
- ShirtdressRare60points
- Short-sleeve dressRare60points
- Skater dressRare60points
- Slip dressRare60points
- Slit dressRare60points
- Smock dressRare60points
- Snake print dressRare60points
- Spaghetti strap dressRare60points
- Spandex dressRare60points
- Spanish dressRare60points
- Spring dressRare60points
- Square neck dressRare60points
- Striped dressRare60points
- Suede dressRare60points
- Sweater dressRare60points
- Sweetheart dressRare60points
- Swimming dressRare60points
- Swing dressRare60points
- T-shirt dressRare60points
- Tailored dressRare60points
- Tango dressRare60points
- Tank dressRare60points
- Tea dressRare60points
- Tea-length dressRare60points
- Tennis dressRare60points
- Three-quarter sleeve dressRare60points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat and unusually deep. Of the 3,518 recorded entries, 3,488 cleared the 60-point bar, and 3,204 of those sat at exactly 85 — a vast middle band of regional and historical garments that the puzzle recognises but most players would never reach. Only 283 answers landed at 60, and those are the obvious, everyday choices that a large share of players type first; the score reflects how common the guess is, so the familiar picks earn least. Just one entry reached 100: Letty Lynton dress, an obscure screen-costume name that almost nobody produces unaided. The lesson is visible in the sample: Aari Kashida saree, Abho and Abkhaz dress all score 85, not because they are famous but because they are specific and rarely attempted. Rarity, not correctness, separates the bands, so the winning move is a real named garment from the far end of the costume literature.