If you have fashion mad tween and teenagers, several new video games offer a chance to get your young fashionistas to understand budgets and time-keeping as well as reinforcing their love of clothing.

One such game, produced by Nintendo, is called Style Savvy and it’s a combination of shopping and style.  The player starts as a salesperson in a posh boutique, and has to work out how to please customers by listening to their interests and preferences and putting together outfits that will suit them.  If you get it right you get more points, and end up managing your own boutique, where you chose which wholesale clothing you will stock by visiting the showrooms of different designers and brands.

Now you also have to buy inventory with your sales income, decide when to advertise and where, which clothing items to put on sale, what to display in your shop windows etc. So you can choose to become a specialist in grunge clothing – selling punk rock items and classic T-shirts or instead run a store that focuses on business clothing like shirts and jackets or high fashion for evenings out.  But while all the fun is taking place, young people also have to master the basic skills of business life – if they don’t sell clothing they can’t buy more so if they upset the customers by offering them inappropriate clothing or by being sarcastic, they don’t make a sale. They even have to make time to go to the hairdresser and gym so that they are a good advertisement for their shop – if they fail to be well groomed, they also lose points.

Also on the Nintendo DS platform Fashion Designer, where the player puts together fashion shoots or there’s a Project Runway video game due to launch on March 2, for the Nintendo Wii, but at the moment, Style Savvy is the game that parents are happy to see their teenage girls playing, because it’s building the skills that all young people need to succeed in the grown up world.

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