Once the saleslady is done failing to convince the mouse-girl to spend more money, Ame waves her over.

"Hi. What can you tell me about this set? I like the look of it, but..." Ame trails off leadingly.

"Oh, it does seem like your style. I almost thought it was a joke at first, but who doesn't want to feel daring and sexy sometimes? We can have it adjusted to fit your curves easily, of course. Sturdy black leather and gilded bronze rings. Now, we don't have any enchantments standard on our items but adding something would be well inside possibilities, of course."

"How long would having it adjusted take? What kind of modifications might be included in that?" Ame asks. She also points at the outfit's crotch not-zipper and asks, "Also, is that functional or just for show?"

"Just a few minutes, our owner's a level 33 tailor!" She smiles a carefully practiced conspiratorial smile and leans forward slightly to whisper. "It's functional. Instant-seams are so very useful."

This saleslady is trying so hard.

"I like it. It's not perfect, but I like it. Where do you keep your belts and accessories? I think with a little work we can make it perfect."

Of course she is- She's on commission. Not that she'd ever admit it.

She will definitely show Ame around the belts and accessories while also inquiring what the rest of her adventuring party is after!

While her party takes their turn with the saleslady, Ame starts sorting through belts looking for one with a fit that's more flattering for her hips than the one on the display piece, that also has the right shade of bronze/gold to match her shield, or at least a design suggesting the metal parts can be swapped out for a different shade.

They have a lot of different belts. Leather backed up with tough-looking iron, fine chainmail meshes, studded with metal buttons, asymmetrical designs with room for a bunch of pouches and bandoliers, and so on.

Ame selects a narrow belt of bronze mesh backed up by leather, which forms an almost-braid where the chain mesh emerges from the leather, creating highlights over her hips, while vanishing into the leather toward the centerline of her body, where it fastens with a pointed bronze clasp, almost like a downward pointed arrowhead.

Then she moves on to the accessories, looking for a splash of color. It needs something else for contrast. Like a pair of these blood-red hairpins. Yeah, a glimpse of red would make the bronze look more gold.

What's her party been looking at with the saleslady while Ame was busy?

Theo has gone ahead and repeated Isodore's earlier suggestions verbatim and is trying to radiate an aura of minimum-effort in a corner. Abyssia is looking through different styles of tunics with angular geometric designs on the front. Liz is grilling the sales assistant about the chances of transferring the enchantments in her current outfit- Or refurbishing it carefully instead.

Ame goes back over to stand in front of the display with the new outfit that will soon hopefully be hers, carrying her selected belt and hairpins, and waits for Liz to finish with the saleslady. 

"-Ma'am, honestly, it seems like you're going to have to do some of this work on your own. I'm not familiar with the demands of sorcery to guarantee anything."

"And you don't know anyone who does have the Enchantment Transfer skill?"

"Indeed not. I would suggest you ask around in the Sandalwood Quarter, if anything- As politely as you can manage, of course." She delivers a subtle bite. "Though, even without magical accoutrements, it'll be worth it to have new stylish outfits."

"It's not what I need though. I need my usual equipment, looking more professionally."

"As I said, I am unable to guarantee a safe transfer or alteration without losing anything. We could make the attempt."

Liz sighs. "Maybe I'll pick up something smooth for escorts and - use this as an undershirt. Hmph."

"An overcoat of sorts? Or new accessories to cover up the seams?"

"I suppose..."

(The roundabout haggling without mentioning any actual amounts of money continues for a couple of minutes before the saleslady returns to Ame.)

Ame shows the saleslady her shield and the belt she selected, showing how the color matches, while the rings on the kinky leather are a duller shade.

"On a scale from trivial to prohibitive, how possible would it be to change the gilding on the the metal bits or replace the metal bits with bits that have gilding that matches the gilding on this belt and the finish on my shield? I think it's the same alloy on both..."

"Oh, maybe a three out of twelve! Except- Ooh, is that rostgold? If you want real rostgold accouterments that will regrow from shards like that shield more like a nine."

Trying so hard.

"It's not rostgold on the chain mesh in this belt, right? I'd be satisfied with whatever this is, on the metal bits of the outfit. It's enough that it's the same color as rostgold. Especially if I might want other enchantments on the bra or, what do you even call those; fetish-hotpants?"

"I've been calling them underwear-armor. One of Martin's... More unique creations. Like his two-week obsession with 'chest windows' last year. Ahem. Yes, we know how to change out the metal - maybe half an hour's work. The garment is magically dry now, so adding enchantments can take a fair amount of time depending on what you want, though."

"Which enchantments are easiest to add?"

"Oh, you want the basic self-cleaning and Nonslip Fit and Durability I, probably. Everyone does. Those are almost standard. A couple steps up there's Allure and Weightless and Stretchy and Durability II and all the basic resistances - slash, piercing, bludgeoning, fire, ice, lightning, magic. But adding more than two or three enchantments can get exponential - the basic three count as just one in that metaphor."

"Just the basic three, I think."

She is curious about what exactly Allure is but can't think of how to ask without getting saleslady's hopes up. She probably can't afford it anyway.

"Yeah. The fitting and modifications to the gilding, the basic three enchantments, and these accessories. I'll be happy with that."

(Tch, oh well.) "Sure thing! Are you shopping all together, or separately?"

Ame glances to her party, then remembers that most of this is coming out of that gold promised to Isodore.

"Together."

She assists the others with their shopping - Elizabeth eventually settling on adding some trim and a wide patch and redoing the threads on her usual robe, accepting any loss of functionality that comes with it. She also gets new, browner boots with fancy leatherwork leaf designs, and a green pointed witch sorceress hat, since she can unsew the patch that does the magic on her hat and re-sew it easily enough. Abyssia goes for a sort of tunic with lots of dark blue, light blue, and grey triangles in an asymmetric pattern that leads the eye in spirals, and whatever accessories Ame suggests. Theo has a dark red robe-suit-thing and is trying his hardest not to care about any further details.

It's convenient that there's a cheap material that matches rostgold in appearance so well. Ame finds more bits like her new belt that she thinks would suit the others, and makes sure Liz's new trim also matches as well as it can.

They still need to find an Aesthetic Wizard Tome for Theo and a new pair of boots for Ame to go with everything else, but she figures they shouldn't do all their shopping in one place, unless there's a really good matching pair of boots that was designed to go with the 'underwear-armor' set? She didn't see any but she wasn't thorough about looking.

There doesn't seem to be any matching footwear for the set.

"Alright. Looks like this is everything."

Ame offers a wry, suggestive smirk.

"Is this 'Martin' going to need to feel me up to get these resized right?"