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Dress To Impress: Style Showdown — What It Included

Style Showdown was a limited runway competition that Dress To Impress ran in early March 2025, turning the game’s usual dress-to-a-theme rounds into a head-to-head catwalk contest. The developer billed it with the line “lights, camera, fashion” and a promise that one player would end each round as the crowned royalty. It has long since wrapped, but it drew enormous interest while it was live, with more than two million players marking themselves interested.
Dress To Impress remains one of Roblox’s biggest fashion titles, with well over a hundred thousand players in game at any given moment, more than 10 billion lifetime visits, and nearly seven million favorites. Style Showdown was one of the seasonal beats that built that audience.
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What the event included
Style Showdown leaned into the competitive side of Dress To Impress. Rather than simply dressing to a prompt and collecting a score, players strutted the runway with the round framed as a showdown, with the strongest look taking the crown. The developer’s listing kept the specifics light, positioning it as a themed catwalk twist on the core loop rather than a systems overhaul.
- A limited-time runway competition format built on the game’s core dress-to-a-theme rounds.
- A per-round winner framing — one player crowned the “royalty” of each showdown.
- A seasonal event window rather than a permanent mode, so it was only playable during its run.
When it ran
Style Showdown opened on March 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM ET and closed on March 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET — a two-week window. Those ET times have equivalents listed across the major world time zones on this page, so the exact start and finish are easy to line up wherever you were playing from. As a fortnight-long event it gave players plenty of runway to take part, though the opening days were the busiest, when the event was newest and interest was climbing fastest.
How it fit the game’s rhythm
Dress To Impress runs a steady cadence of themed events and updates, and Style Showdown sits early in that 2025 calendar. Later in the year the game shifted into a tighter run of week-long seasonal drops — Runway Chaos in late September, a Halloween Update, and the Lana Quest revival — before running a three-week DTI x Wicked crossover through late November and wrapping the year with a New Year’s Update. Against that pattern, Style Showdown’s full two weeks was a longer window than the six- or seven-day events that became the norm afterward, though shorter than the extended DTI x Wicked crossover. The game is currently mid-run on its Summer Update, which continues into late August.
FAQ
When did the Style Showdown event end?
The Dress To Impress Style Showdown event ended on March 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET, after opening on March 1.
What was in the Style Showdown event?
Style Showdown was a limited-time runway competition that reworked the game’s dress-to-a-theme rounds into a head-to-head catwalk contest, with one player crowned the winner of each round.
Is the Style Showdown event still going in Dress To Impress?
No. Style Showdown was a two-week event that ran in March 2025 and is no longer playable; Dress To Impress is currently running its Summer Update instead.
How long did the Style Showdown event last?
It lasted two weeks, from March 1 to March 15, 2025 — a longer window than most of the six- to seven-day events Dress To Impress ran later in the year, though shorter than the three-week DTI x Wicked crossover in November.
