Gaming Guide

Punk Dress To Impress: 2 Edgy Outfit Ideas (Buckle Top and Red Pleated Skirt)

Two punk looks for Dress To Impress built from the Dressing Room tops wall and the Halloween display, including every palette position.

Two punk looks for Dress To Impress built from the Dressing Room tops wall and the Halloween display, including every palette position.

Punk (searched most as “punk dti”) is one of the round themes in Dress To Impress on Roblox. The game gives only the name, so the reading here is ours: black with hard red accents, buckles, studs and chains, and one loud touch such as red hair. We built two looks in Freeplay Mode, a black buckle top with a red fluffy band over wide black trousers, and a black studded-collar jacket with a red pleated chain skirt and bright red hair, and took our own pictures of each step. Every piece and color used is free, so both work without VIP. For the other themes, see every Dress To Impress theme we have built.

Quick answer: Put the black studded-collar jacket from the Halloween display over a red pleated chain skirt, recolor your hair bright red, and add black nails and knee-high boots. For a darker look, wear the black buckle top with wide black trousers.


Punk outfit ideas in Dress To Impress

Dress To Impress shows no item names, so every piece here is described by where it sits, what it looks like and the spot we used on the Default palette (columns from the left, rows from the top). A fresh Freeplay character starts in the base body: a blank head with no hair, a black top, black shorts and bare feet. In Look 2 the black base top stays uncovered under the open jacket and reads as a black crop top; it is part of the base body, not a piece you put on.

Look 1: Black buckle top with a red fluffy band

Our idea: all-black punk, with buckles at the waist and one strip of red. Look 1 is built on the black wide-leg trousers, the long straight black hair and the black knee-high stiletto boots from our Webbed In Style outfit ideas, so if you have made those looks you only change the top.

Put on the base pieces if you do not wear them yet: the dark wide-leg trousers from the lower shelf on the right side of the spawn-hall trousers wall, set to black; the long straight hair from the first card of the Straight tab at the Lana’s Salon hair chairs, set to black; and the slouchy knee-high stiletto boots with red soles from the middle of the lower shoe shelf by the Dressing Room landing, with part 1 black and part 2 red. Our Webbed In Style guide shows each of them step by step.
Go to the tops wall in the Dressing Room. On the left unit’s middle shelf is a navy strapless top with straps and a metal buckle.
The tops wall in the Dressing Room with a navy strapless top with a buckle on the left unit's middle shelf
The navy buckle top on the left unit.
Click it. It shows on you as a preview and its color panel opens at “1/4: Preview”: the top has four parts. Set every color now, while it is still a preview. For part 1, click the black heart at the far right of the bottom row on the Palette tab.
The buckle top previewing on the character from behind, its color panel at 1/4: Preview with the Default palette
The top at "1/4: Preview".
Press the right arrow to “2/4: Preview” and click the dark red heart (column 1, row 7). The fluffy band at the hem turns red.
The color panel at 2/4: Preview, the fluffy band at the top's hem now red on the character
Part 2: the fluffy band in red.
Set “3/4: Preview” to black as well, and “4/4: Preview” to grey (column 5, row 8). Then press “Put On”.
The color panel at 4/4: Preview with the black top and red band on the character
Part 4 in grey.
Open the Wearing panel. We still had a corset on from an earlier look, so we clicked the heart X under its picture to take it off. Take off any top other than the buckle top the same way.
The Wearing panel with five pictures including a white corset from an earlier look and the buckle top
Taking the old corset off in the Wearing panel.
Check the Wearing panel: four pictures, the trousers, the hair, the boots and the buckle top.
The Wearing panel with four pictures: trousers, hair, boots and the buckle top
Four pieces in the Wearing panel.

The finished look from the front: a black strapless top with a double belt and two silver buckles at the waist, a red fluffy band at the hip, black wide-leg trousers and long black hair. The trousers cover the boots down to their pointed toes.

Look 1 from the front on the Freeplay Runway: black strapless top with silver buckles, red fluffy band, black wide-leg trousers and long black hair
Look 1 from the front.
Open Poses and pick one from the Solo list. We clicked Dazzle; the hand on the hip shows off the buckled waist.
Look 1 in a hand-on-hip pose on the Freeplay Runway
Look 1 in a hand-on-hip pose.

From the side, the hair falls past the waist and the red band wraps all the way round.

Look 1 from the side: waist-length black hair, black top, red fluffy band and wide black trousers
Look 1 from the side.

Look 2: Studded jacket, red pleated skirt and red hair

Our idea: the classic punk mix of a black jacket with studs, a short red skirt with chains, black boots and bright red hair. We started from Look 1 and kept its hair and boots.

Go to the Halloween display in the Dressing Room, the round podium with pumpkins and dressed mannequins. The mannequin front-left of center wears a dark pleated mini skirt with chains. Click its skirt: the panel opens at “1/3: Preview” (three parts). Press “Put On”.
The Halloween display with mannequins and pumpkins, the skirt's color panel open at 1/3: Preview
The skirt's panel at "1/3: Preview".
Open the Wearing panel and click the heart X under the trousers and under the buckle top. Three pictures are left: the hair, the boots and the skirt. The black top you now see on yourself is the base body’s top.
The Wearing panel with three pictures, hair, boots and a dark pleated skirt, the character in the black base top and the skirt
Hair, boots and skirt left.
On the same display, right of center, a mannequin wears a grey cropped jacket with a studded collar. Click the jacket: its panel opens at “1/3: Preview”.
The grey cropped jacket with a studded collar previewing on the character, who still wears grey ripped trousers we had previewed
The jacket at "1/3: Preview".
While it is a preview, set part 1 to black (the bottom-right heart), then press “Put On”. This is the same jacket as in the studded rebel look of our Dystopia outfit ideas, which wears it in charcoal.
The jacket now black on the character, the Default palette open and the Put On button showing
The jacket in black.
Open the Wearing panel again. Previewing pieces on the display can leave them on you after the panel closes: we found grey ripped trousers and a rose headpiece there that we had only looked at. Click the heart X under anything you did not mean to wear.
The Wearing panel with six pictures, including grey ripped trousers and a rose headpiece that were only previewed
Previewed pieces left on: trousers and a headpiece.
The Wearing panel should now show four pictures: the hair, the boots, the skirt and the jacket.
The Wearing panel with four pictures: hair, boots, skirt and the black studded jacket
Four pieces in the Wearing panel.
Recolor the skirt from the Wearing panel: click its picture, and in the panel at “1/3: Preview” click red (column 1, row 6). It turns into a red pleated mini skirt; darker check lines in the fabric still show through the red.
The skirt's color panel at 1/3: Preview opened from the Wearing panel, the skirt now red on the character
Recoloring the skirt red.
For the nails, go to the nail station in Lana’s Salon and sit down. A “Select Design” panel opens with a 3:00 timer and a Space “To Exit” prompt. Click the first design card, then the second heart from the right in the bottom row of the palette. The nails turn black.
The nail station's Select Design panel with the color palette and the character's hands with black nails
Black nails at the nail station.
Recolor the hair without going back to the salon: in the Wearing panel, click the hair’s picture and set “1/1: Preview” to bright red (column 1, row 5). The hairstyle stays the same; only the color changes.
The hair's color panel at 1/1: Preview opened from the Wearing panel, the hair now bright red
Recoloring the hair bright red.

The finished look from the front: bright red hair, the black cropped jacket with its studded collar and studded cuffs open over the black base top, the red pleated skirt with its pale waistband and white chains, bare legs and the black knee-high boots from Look 1.

Look 2 from the front on the Freeplay Runway: bright red hair, black studded-collar cropped jacket over the black base top, red pleated skirt with chains and black knee-high boots
Look 2 from the front.
Open Poses and pick one from the Solo list; we used Lilac, a hand-on-hip pose.
Look 2 in the Lilac pose with one hand on the hip on the Freeplay Runway
Look 2 in the Lilac pose.

From behind, the long red hair hangs over the black jacket, with the red skirt and black boots below.

Look 2 from behind: long bright red hair over the black jacket, red skirt and black knee boots
Look 2 from behind.

Why these looks read as Punk

Punk is black first, with hard details and a clash of red: studs, buckles, chains, short pleated skirts, heavy boots and dyed hair. Look 1 keeps the outfit dark and lets the buckles and the red band carry it. Look 2 is louder, with studs on the collar and cuffs, chains on a red skirt, black nails and red hair against all that black. That is plain styling advice; we have not seen how either look scores in a real round.

Look 1 shares its trousers, hair and boots with our Webbed In Style outfit ideas, and Look 2’s jacket comes from the same display as the studded rebel in our Dystopia outfit ideas. For more dark looks, see our Trad Goth outfit ideas; for a rock-star take, see our Album Cover outfit ideas; and for neon instead of red, see our Cyberpunk outfit ideas.


How to recolor a piece part by part

  1. Click the piece on the shelf or mannequin so it shows on you as a preview and its color panel opens.
  2. Pick the part with the arrows beside the part name (“1/4: Preview”, “2/4: Preview” and so on). Each part takes its own color.
  3. Choose the color on the Palette tab (the Default palette: columns are hues, rows run light to dark, and the bottom row runs from white to black).
  4. Set every part, then press “Put On”. Colors set while previewing stay on the piece you wear.
  5. To change a piece you already wear, including your hair, click its picture in the Wearing panel and set the part again.

To take a piece off, click the heart X under its picture in the Wearing panel. Check that panel after browsing a display: pieces you only previewed can stay on.


Punk colors on the Default palette

Rows count from the top of the palette, columns from the left. These are the spots we used for both looks.

ColorColumnRowUsed for
Black9 (far right)8 (bottom row)Buckle top parts 1 and 3; jacket part 1; trousers, boots part 1 and Look 1 hair
Near-black88 (bottom row)Nails (Look 2)
Grey58 (bottom row)Buckle top part 4
Dark red17Buckle top part 2 (the fluffy band); boots part 2 (the soles). It reads as bright red in the hall’s light.
Red16Skirt (Look 2)
Bright red15Hair (Look 2)

Punk pieces to look for

None of these pieces has a name in the game, so look for them by place and shape. All of them are free and worked on our account with no VIP and 0 stars.

PieceWhereColors we used
Strapless top with a buckled double belt at the waist and a fluffy band at the hem (four parts), navy on the shelfDressing Room tops wall, left unit, middle shelfLook 1: parts 1 and 3 black, part 2 red, part 4 grey: black top, red fluffy band, silver buckles
Wide-leg trousers (three parts)Spawn-hall skirts and trousers wall, right side, lower shelfLook 1: black
Long straight hair with a center partLana’s Salon hair chairs, Hairstyles, Straight tab, first cardLook 1: black
Slouchy knee-high stiletto boots with red soles (two parts)Shoe shelf by the Dressing Room landing, lower shelf, middle pairBoth looks: part 1 black, part 2 red (the soles)
Pleated mini skirt with a pale waistband and chains (three parts), dark on the mannequinHalloween display in the Dressing Room, mannequin front-left of centerLook 2: red (column 1, row 6); darker check lines show through
Cropped jacket with a studded collar, white edging and studded cuffs (three parts), grey on the mannequinSame Halloween display, right of centerLook 2: part 1 black
The same long straight hair, recoloredRecolored from the Wearing panelLook 2: bright red (column 1, row 5)
Nails, first design cardNail station, “Select Design” panelLook 2: black (bottom row, second from right)

Poses for Punk

Any free pose from the Poses menu works; a hand on the hip shows off a buckled waist or an open jacket. For the full list with a picture of each, see every free pose in Dress To Impress.


Building it in Freeplay Mode first

Freeplay Mode has no timer, so it is the place to find the pieces and set every part without a round running out. That matters here: the jacket and skirt sit on a crowded display where previewed pieces can stay on you, and the buckle top has four parts to set. Once a look works, you know which shelf, which palette spots and which parts to go to when Punk comes up in a real round. For more themes built the same way, see our Boho, Robot Takeover, Album Cover, Potion Maker, Monochrome Mood, Divine Beings, Drag, Sweet 16, Camouflage, Deserted Island, Summer Cruise, Favorite Show, Fairytale, Cotton Candy Couture, Cyberpunk, Birth Stones, Y2K Popstar, Video Game Character, Top Model, Fast Food Mascot, DJ, Award Show, Drama Queen, Instagram Model, Day of the Dead, Malibu Dream, Stained Glass, Summer Camp, Modern Royalty, Trad Goth, Wonderland, Trip To London, Pop Art Princess, Sugar And Spice, Paranormal Investigator, Cursed Lagoon, Complementary Colors, Galactic Glam, Dancer, Midnight Circus, Jellyfish, Garden Tea Party, Enchanted Curse, Harvest Festival, Thrifted, Lazy But Cute, Possessed, Night At The Orchard, Bioluminescent Depths, Coronation, Your Country, Reality Television, Subway Rush, Candlelit Library, Dystopia, Decora, Vaporwave, Gymnastics, NPC Core and Webbed In Style outfit ideas.


How a theme round works

We have not had Punk as a round yet; this is from ordinary server rounds on other themes. On the main lobby, the theme shows in a banner at the top with a timer under it. After dressing, each player walks the runway in turn, about 7 seconds each, while the others vote with five stars along the bottom of the screen, with a “Voting complete!” banner between players. A “Results” card then ranks the players, followed by an “Intermission” countdown.

The “Pick Theme” button next to the intermission timer lets you choose the theme, but only with Theme Props. The panel reads “You have: 0 Theme Props” and offers a “Buy More” button priced at 75 Robux. We bought none and saw no free ones, so without Robux you wait for Punk to roll.


What we have not checked

No round we joined rolled Punk, so these looks have not walked a real round: there is no score, star count or vote for them. We did not use safety pins, fishnets, a band tee, a mohawk or spiked hair, or any ripped piece in the final looks, and did not search every shelf for them. Look 2’s red hair is a recolor of the same long straight hairstyle, not a new style. We added no makeup or accessories. Both looks were built with 0 stars, and nothing was bought.


FAQ

What is the Punk theme in Dress To Impress?

The game gives only the theme’s name. We read it as punk fashion: black clothes with studs, buckles and chains, a short red skirt or red accents, heavy boots and bright hair.

Can I do Punk without VIP?

Yes. Both looks were built on an account with no VIP and 0 stars, and every piece and color used here worked on it, with no lock or price on any of them.

Where is the studded jacket?

On the Halloween display in the Dressing Room, on the mannequin right of center. It is grey on the mannequin; set part 1 to black while it is a preview, then press “Put On”.

Where is the red pleated skirt with chains?

On the same Halloween display, on the mannequin front-left of center. It is dark on the mannequin; we put it on and then recolored it red (column 1, row 6) from the Wearing panel.

How do I get red hair?

Click your hair’s picture in the Wearing panel and pick a red on the palette. We used column 1, row 5 for a bright red. The style stays the same.

Why am I still wearing something I only previewed?

Clicking pieces on a display to look at them can leave them on you. Open the Wearing panel and click the heart X under anything you do not want.