Pokemon Scarlet & Violetoffer up Pokemon’s very first mainline open-world experience, allowing you to decide when and how you’ll tackle the laundry list of challenges that are tossed your way – if you want to spend the entire game ignoring the critical path in favor of catching every Pokemon in Paldea, you finally have that agency.
But if you thought that the most important things in a game called Pokemon are the titular creatures, you’ve got it all wrong– the most important thing in the wild world of Paldea islooking fresh wherever you go. Thankfully, your school has provided you with a nice set of duds that may take your fashion to the next level.
Updated July 10, 2025, by Ja Vaughn Marshall:With the exciting Teal Mask expansion to Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, a brand-new outfit called the Festival Jinbei has been introduced to make your character feel at home throughout Naranja Academy’s field trip to Kitakami. With this new fashionable fit for your foreign fauna fighter, it’s even harder to decide which sets of clothing are the best; every outfit offers something different for the trainer on the go. Regardless, some designs are more likely to catch your eye and stick in your memory than others due to their effective use of artistic principles.
9New Autumn Uniform
The New Autumn Uniform comes with The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC as an alternate version of the Autumn Uniform, and it’s… fine. The thing that drops this uniform into last place is the strange shorts, which areweirdly proportioned and distract pretty heavily from the rest of the outfit.
Other than the shorts, everything else about the outfit is pretty good – it’s hard to resist a nice cardigan, and the use of white in Scarlet and black in Violet makes the whole uniform feel vibrant and sleek, respectively.
8Summer Uniform
The Summer Uniform is an outfit that comes with the base game, and it’s all right. The shorts are long enough that their wider bottoms seem natural, and the light blue button-up and tie are simple enough that they won’t add visual clutterif you wear other accessories.
The reason it’s so low on the list? While simplicity lends well to customization, the Summer Uniform completely lacks visual flair – a few little solid colored details on the torso would not have overcomplicated the design enough to dampen the effect of your accessories.
7New Summer Uniform
The New Summer Uniform is another one of the DLC uniforms and is the first uniform on the list that is actually kind of cool. The polo that is included in this uniform is relatively simple but has small design choices (like the slightly darker sleeves and the emblem on its heart) that make it visually distinct from other uniforms.
The big issue with this uniform comes with its shorts – it isn’t so severe that the uniform becomes impossible to appreciate, but the shorts in both games border on clashing with the colors of the top. The shorts are close to good since they’re still technically the right temperature, but it would have worked better if they didn’t introduce a new color to the mix.
6Spring Uniform
With Spring comes change and a swell uniform, and these uniforms are visually consistent and interesting without sacrificing the simplicity that makes them work well with accessories. The suspenders, specifically, add to the design since they are neutral in color, and therefore do not interfere with color balance.
One of the cool aspects of this uniform is the solid colors of the shirt’s cuff – they match the pants and tie and add an extra level of flair to the design. The pants are nothing special, but they do the job of adding balance to the light blue top of the outfit.
5New Spring Uniform
The New Spring Uniform improves significantly on the original Spring Uniform design while retaining everything that made that outfit good – the long sleeve button-up of the original has been replaced by a sleeve polo in Scarlet and a sweater vest in Violet. Despite getting rid of the tie in the lower half of the torso, both designs manage to add small things that maintain visual interest.
The shorts do everything right in this outfit – despite being a different color than those established in the top, the color is similar enough in brightness and temperature to work as a supplement rather than a distractor, fading into the design while still creating interest.
4Winter Uniform
The base game’s Winter Uniform introduces a lot more visual interest through color but doesn’t do it to the extent that it becomes overly distracting. The little smears of blue in Scarlet and yellow in Violet complement the colors that dominate the outfits, making the design pop. It’s small enough, though, that you never get the sense that this color is a core part of your school colors.
The pants are perfectly passable in this uniform, simply solidifying what the main color of this outfit is supposed to be. The collar and pockets on the top are neat little details that make this feel even more like a design unique to the game rather than generic coats and pants.
3Autumn Uniform
Vests are just memorable; there’s no denying it – the vests of these uniforms contrast the school colors in a big way, providing the outfits with a more recognizable scheme. Since the outfit is composed of two complementary colors, you get the same effect as you might see from the blue and red of Sonic and Mario, developing a theme for your character as you wear it.
The only little issue with this uniform is that the complementary colors that make up the vests are not a part of the school colors, making their dominance in the design a little strange for a school uniform. Still, it doesn’t hurt the style of the uniform in the least.
2New Winter Uniform
The New Winter Uniform from the Area Zero DLC is, bar none, the most fun outfit of the expansion, and it owes that to its fearless use of color. From top to bottom, these outfits are dominated by their core color – they don’t attempt to dilute anything with neutral or supplementary colors, instead dedicating everything to a single tone.
In a world as cartoonish as Pokemon’s, the bold design of these outfits matches the tone perfectly – the other uniforms would be well served by similar design decisions, especially if they focused more on strong contrasting colors that pop. Other characters in the game are designed with strong colors, so why not the protagonist?
1Festival Jinbei
The Festival Jinbeis from Scarlet and Violet’s Teal Mask DLC has every bit of the style that everyone has been asking for – the dynamic shapes, patterning, and colors of this outfit set give you the feeling that you’re changing fashions beyond rehashing the same four interpretations of ‘school uniform.’
The selection of green on the Jinbei used in the promotional art in particular sits in contrast with the Scarlet and Violet’s core color scheme, giving the Teal Mask expansion its own identity outside the more school-oriented elements of the base game.
