Dress the part: dress codes at the clubs, the beach and the gym

Some places in Malta Living now care what you're wearing. Clubs, beaches and the gym each have a dress code, and dressing for it gives you a little more of what you came for. It's a small reward for putting an outfit together, never a door slammed in your face. If you've been looking for a dress code game that rewards style without punishing anyone, this is how ours works.

Where the dress codes are

Every place with a dress code says so on its card, before you go. Tap a place on the map and look under its description:

• Gym: Cynergi on St George's Bay, and the Sunday run club.
• Night out: Sky Club, Club Shady, Tokyo Club, Gianpula, Hugo's, the Casino and the Lottery House.
• Beach: Golden Bay, the Blue Lagoon and Café del Mar.

Gala and festa dress codes are ready too, for events to come. Places without a code say nothing about clothes at all.

What dressing the part gives you

Dressed for it, what you do there gives a little more:

• At a night out or the beach: +20% Fun.
• At the gym: +20% of everything the workout or class gives your needs.
• At a gala: +25% Fun and Social.

The extra shows up in the result, so you can see it working: "Dressed for it: +6 Fun." Stop an activity early and the extra goes back with the rest, as everything else does. At the Casino and the Lottery House it's Fun only. Your clothes never change the odds, a stake or a win. And no outfit ever helps a risky move.

Dressed for work

Work clothes help in a different way. In jobs and careers, four steady shifts in a row get you promoted, and a steady shift normally ends at 90% or more. Dressed for work, a shift counts as steady from 85%. A shirt, a polo, a blazer, chinos, a skirt, the smart suit or your uniform all count. It counts if you're dressed for work when the shift pays, so changing out halfway through loses it.

It's a nudge, not a shortcut. We ran thirty working days of the same job, one player always dressed for work and one never: the dressed player was promoted one shift sooner, and both earned the same for the same shifts.

What fits each code

You don't need to buy anything. Every dress code has free clothes that fit it:

• Gym: a sports vest, a vest top, leggings, joggers or the football kit.
• Night out: a shirt, a dress or the smart suit. The going-out cami, the leather jacket and sequins count too.
• Beach: swim shorts, shorts, a vest top or your summer clothes.
• Gala: the smart suit, a dress or a blazer.

Bought pieces count exactly the same as free ones. Wrong clothes never cost you anything; you simply miss the extra.

Change for me, on arrival

Save an outfit for Party or Beach in the Boutique app's Occasions tab, and the place card offers to put it on in one tap. With Change for me switched on, it happens by itself: arrive at a club and you're in your party outfit ("Into your Party outfit · dressed for it"), and when you leave you're back in what you had on. It already does the same for bed and for work.

Off to Paceville for the night? Paceville is St Julian's nightlife quarter, and in the game it's where most of the night-out codes are. Heading to the Casino and the Lottery House? Same code, Fun only. New to the island? Start with the Malta life simulator guide, then play Malta Living free.

Questions people ask

Do I have to buy clothes to meet a dress code?

No. Every dress code has free clothes that fit it, like a shirt for a night out or a sports vest for the gym. Bought pieces count the same, never more.

What happens if I'm not dressed for it?

Nothing bad. You can still go in and do everything; you just don't get the extra Fun.

Does dressing up help at the Casino?

Only with Fun. Your outfit never changes the odds, what you can stake or what you win.

How do I see which places have a dress code?

Tap a place on the map. Its card shows the dress code under its description, with a tick when you're dressed for it.