Pokopia Outfits Guide: All 25 Outfits and 20 Hairstyles

There is no clothes shop in Pokopia. There is no tailor, no Able Sisters, no Life Coin price list for a shirt. The Pokemon Center PC will happily sell you a mirror, and then leave you standing in front of it with the same two outfits you started with.

That is not an oversight, it is the premise. Serebii's customisation page spells out the logic: the game is set in Kanto long after the people left, "there are few shops for you to go to," so instead "Ditto learns various outfits from looking at magazines talking about various trainers from around the world." Every single outfit in this game is a findable object lying somewhere in the world. Which means a wardrobe is not something you buy. It is a collectible, with locations.

Ditto has no wardrobe, it has a reading list

The objects you are looking for are Human Records — newspapers, magazines, diaries, letters, notes, papers and photos left behind by the missing humans. Serebii describes them as records that "show a sparkly as you approach them," and Game8 puts them more bluntly: documents and photos that turn up around the island, often in abandoned structures. Most of them are pure story. Professor Tangrowth is piecing together what happened to the people, and the diaries and dev logs are how you piece it together with him.

Some of them, though, are magazines about trainers, and reading one of those teaches Ditto that trainer's look.

Serebii's Human Records table currently lists 163 records: 126 in the original list and 37 more added in its Ver. 2.0 section alongside Bubbly Basin. Of those, 55 rows carry a reward — and 10 of the 55 are "Peculiar pattern" entries, which are patterns you show to Smearguru rather than anything you wear. That leaves 45 records that hand you a cosmetic: 25 outfits, 11 hairstyles and 9 emotes.

The 25-outfit figure is worth pausing on, because it lines up exactly with the other table. Serebii's customisation page lists 27 outfits, two of which (Familiar Outfit 1 and 2) are what you are handed at character creation. 27 minus the 2 starters is 25, and 25 is precisely the number of outfits credited to a named Human Record. Two independently-built tables agreeing to the unit is about as close to confirmation as this game gets.

What you can actually change, and where

Character creation is smaller than you would guess, and permanent in none of it.

The mirror rule is the practical bit. Serebii says appearance changes can be made "at any time whenever you go to a large mirror no matter where it is placed" — so a mirror you own and put down works exactly like one you found. Game8 adds the two useful corollaries: mirrors are sold at the Pokemon Center PC Shop, and you can interact with "a mirror or any object with a mirror." Its dressers page spells out the version you will actually use — the Antique, Luxury and Cute dressers all have mirrors and all open the customization menu, and all three are crafted at the workbench rather than bought. Park one next to your workbench and stop walking back to a Pokemon Center to change your hair.

One thing the tables make obvious that the game does not: the starting clothes are colour swaps, not styles. Serebii's tops, pants, headwear and bags lists each open with 16 "Beginning" entries, and Game8's breakdown explains why — Familiar Top #1 and #2 in eight colours each (black, blue, purple, yellow, green, red, pink and cyan), same for pants, same for hats. Shoes get 8. So the "wide" starting wardrobe is two outfits wearing a paint wheel.

Outfits also come apart. Serebii lists all 25 unlockable outfits a second time under Tops, a third time under Pants and a fourth under Shoes, so the pieces are tracked as separate items rather than one locked costume. Hats and bags are the exception: those tables credit only six outfits with a headwear piece and three with a bag.

The eight outfits hiding in Kanto

These are the fixed ones. They sit in specific spots in the four base-game areas, they do not rotate, and they are the only outfits you can plan a route to. Records from Serebii's table, locations from Game8's customisation guide.

Read the record names next to the areas and the ruins start talking. A newspaper about a legendary ninja family sits in the Withered Wasteland. A Lt. Surge tell-all is on Bleak Beach, in the region whose other newspaper is headlined "Vermilion Ranks No. 1 for 4th Year!" A Game Corner memo, a Celadon department-store reopening and a Sabrina interview are all in the Sparkling Skylands. Our areas and map guide covers which Kanto city each region used to be, and the outfit list doubles as a second map of it.

Two of these are worth a detour early rather than late. The Rock-solid outfit is up a ladder inside a Rocky Ridges cave you are already climbing for ore, and the Sailor outfit is on the SS Anne, which you cross anyway during Bleak Beach's story.

Twelve more are Dream Island loot

The other dozen base-game outfits are not placed. They are Dream Island drops, and Game8 is specific about where to look: they turn up in the underground cavern area near the centre of a Dream Island, and which one you get is random.

Since these are random and there are twelve of them plus six hairstyles in the same pool, the collection rate is set by how often you run islands at all. Drifloon's island rotation is already the backbone of your materials economy — our resource guide covers the daily island type and how to pick it — so treat the cavern as one more stop on a run you were making anyway rather than a separate grind.

The five Expansion Pass outfits

Serebii flags five outfits as Expansion Pass content. Three are placed in Bubbly Basin itself and two drop from the Starmie Dream Islands the DLC adds.

Getting into the Basin at all has prerequisites — Dive, a trainer rank gate, the story — which our Bubbly Basin walkthrough lays out in order. Note also that the Mermaid outfit is DLC and lives in the Basin, while the Mermaid hairstyle is base game and lives in the Withered Wasteland. There is also a Mermaid emote, which Serebii's emotes page says comes from having a Psyduck or Vaporeon visit from another player's island. Three unrelated unlocks, one name.

As for what comes next: Serebii's Expansion Pass page lists Pack 2 for "Late 2026" and says its features "are not clear," with Pack 3 in 2027. There is no published outfit list for either, and anybody showing you one is guessing.

All 20 hairstyles and where they come from

Twenty styles total. Seven are free at creation, eight more are base-game finds, five are Expansion Pass. Serebii and Game8 give the same seven starters, which is a useful cross-check.

Parted, Winged pigtails and Long are the three with no named record in Serebii's table. Serebii's customisation page still gives each of them a location, so they are obtainable; the reward column just does not credit a specific magazine. Do not read "no record listed" as "not in the game."

Hair colour has no collectible attached at all: 33 options after Ver. 2.0.0, changeable at any mirror at any time, nothing to find first. Skin is the same — 10 options, and neither source lists an unlockable one. Our update history covers the five colours that patch added.

The same records pile also pays emotes

Emotes come from three different systems — six are on by default, a long list are gifts from specific Pokemon, and a dozen more only unlock when a particular species visits from another player's island. But a chunk of them are Human Records, found the same way and in the same places as the outfits.

That table is Serebii's emotes page. Its Human Records table is shorter and does not agree with it: the records table credits only four of those eight — Goodbye, Smile, Clap and Thinking — and carries no row at all for Point Here, Greetings, Thumbs-Up or No. That is why the arithmetic near the top of this post counts 9 emote records and this section lists 14. Trust the emotes page for what exists and the records table for where it came from.

The emotes page credits six more to Human Records after Ver. 2.0.0: Lie Down, Ready Set Go!, Warm-Up Stretches, Hooray, Roar and Hehehe. Nintendo's own Ver. 2.0.0 notes name only the first two as new emotes, so the other four are paid-DLC content rather than free-update content. The two Serebii pages disagree about where they sit: the records table puts Warm-Up Stretches and Hehehe in Bubbly Basin and Hooray and Roar on Starmie Dream Islands, while the emotes page files all four under Dream Island.

Where the sources disagree

Two databases, both good, both hand-built from play. They do not line up everywhere, so here is every disagreement I hit while cross-checking, and which number to distrust.

• Locs hair. Serebii's Human Records table credits Angler Monthly (Special Edition), on a Dream Island, with Locs hair. But Serebii's own customisation table lists Locs as one of the seven styles you have at character creation, and Game8's character-creation list names the same seven including Locs. Two lists against one row: assume you already own it.
• Headwear counts do not reconcile. Serebii's hat table shows six unlockable pieces. Game8's Dream Island section alone lists eight hats, plus four more in the base areas. Neither claims to be exhaustive, so do not treat any headwear total as final — including the one you just read.
• DLC hairstyles. Serebii marks five styles as Expansion Pass; Game8's DLC Dream Island section lists only Side tails. Serebii's is the longer list and matches its own records table on four of the five — Crested, Ponytail, Messy short and Side tails each have a credited magazine, and only Long does not.
• "Comfy Living (Vol. 11)" appears twice in Serebii's Bubbly Basin magazine list, once with no reward and once carrying the Mermaid outfit. Probably a duplicated row, but if you have read one Comfy Living in the Basin and got nothing, that is why.
• Sport versus Sporty. The records table says "Sport outfit," the customisation table says "Sporty outfit." Same item.
• Two record names carry typos on Serebii. Its rows read "Opthalmology Journal (Spring)" and "Gym Leader Montly (July Issue)" — every other Gym Leader Monthly row on the same page spells it correctly. The tables above use the corrected spellings, but I have not seen the in-game strings, so if a search fails, try the other one.

None of this is a knock on either site. It is what happens when a game ships 163 collectible documents and two fan sites index them by hand.

Quick Action Checklist

• Put a mirror or dresser next to your workbench. Mirrors are sold at the Pokemon Center PC Shop; the three dressers are crafted at the workbench. Appearance changes run through a mirror, so put one where you already stand.
• Route the eight fixed outfits while you are in each area for story reasons — the pink house in the Wasteland, the SS Anne, the Rocky Ridges cave ladders, and three separate Sparkling Skylands islands.
• Check the central underground cavern on every Dream Island run. Twelve outfits and six hairstyles only come from there, at random.
• Read every magazine you pick up. Story records and outfit records look identical until you open them.
• Do not hunt Locs, Parted, Winged pigtails or Long by record name — the first is almost certainly a starter, and the other three have locations but no credited magazine.
• Remember Mermaid is three different things: base-game hair in the Withered Wasteland, DLC outfit in the Basin, and an emote from a visiting Psyduck or Vaporeon.