👗 The Personal Shopper 2.0

Who plays who

• A — The Personal Shopper: you bring the options and you have opinions about all of them.
• B — The Client: you are trying things on and every outfit needs a second opinion.
• A leads Acts 1–2; B leads Acts 3–4 and aftercare.

What you need

• Three things to try on — lingerie, a shirt, anything that can be worn and removed
• A mirror you can actually see yourself in
• A closed door, called "the fitting room", with a chair outside it
• A mannequin prop, or a stand-in — a chair with a jacket on it will do

Act 1 — 🕯️ Setup

You knock on the fitting-room door with an armful of hangers and a professional opinion. The client is behind it, half-dressed, and lets you in because the door really is only big enough for two. The first outfit is chosen before either of you has said a full sentence.

Beats

• Do the shopper routine properly: knock, the hangers, the "I brought you three".
• The client tries the first thing on and comes out to the mirror.
• The shopper gives a real opinion — one true compliment and one honest criticism.

Lines to say

• "I brought you three. Try the first one, then we talk."
• "That's not the one. But the colour's right."
• "Do you want the mirror, or my opinion? You can't have both at once."

Act 2 — 🔥 Build

The second outfit is better and the shopper knows it. They move from the chair outside the door to standing just inside it, close enough to do up a zip, and their critique gets more specific with every piece. Every opinion requires getting closer to deliver it.

Beats

• The shopper moves inside the fitting room and stays; the door is closed behind them.
• Each critique is demonstrated physically — the waist, the hem, the line at the hip.
• The client has to stand still for the assessment, arms wherever they are put.

Lines to say

• "Hold still. If I'm going to judge it, I'm going to judge it up close."
• "This one's a yes. So's the way you're standing in it."
• "Turn. Slowly. I'll tell you when to stop."

Act 3 — ⚡ Escalate

The client has had enough second opinions and takes over. They tell the shopper what to bring, what to hold, and what to take off — including the shopper's own clothes, piece by piece, on the same terms. The outfits stop being for wearing.

Beats

• The client sets the terms: which item comes off next, and by whose hand.
• The shopper follows exactly and offers no opinions unless asked.
• The mannequin gets used: one outfit goes on it and stays there for the rest of the act.

Lines to say

• "Your turn. Take off the jacket, and don't rush it."
• "Put that one on the mannequin. I've decided about that one."
• "No more opinions. Do what you're told."

Act 4 — 💥 Climax

The mannequin is dressed, the shopper is not, and the mirror is the only witness. The client has run the room since Act 3 and keeps it to the end. Nothing left to try on.

Beats

• No narration, no talk of the shop, no more outfits.
• Use what Act 3 built: the terms, the mannequin, the count.
• Let it end the way your bodies want, and stop when either of you does.

Lines to say

• "Look at me in the mirror. Don't look away."
• "That's it. Stay right there."
• "Say it back to me like it's still an order."

Act 5 — 🤍 Aftercare

The mannequin gets undressed and put back where it lives, and the outfits get hung up properly. You are two people again in your own bedroom.

Beats

• Come back to your own names out loud — shopper and client are finished.
• Hang up the outfits together and put real clothes back on, unhurried.
• Say which outfit you would buy again and which one stays on the rail.

Lines to say

• "Best fitting room I've ever worked in."
• "Next time I want you to bring the outfits."

Aftercare

Hangers away, mannequin cleared, and something genuinely comfortable back on both of you. Say one thing you liked and one thing you want next time, out loud, before either of you settles. This is the 2.0, so say plainly that going further was the point and that the door was yours to lock. The shopper should be told clearly, in plain words, that every opinion was wanted.

Ground rules and consent

• The fitting room is our own bedroom and no shop, staff or other customer exists — the door is ours to lock.
• "Mannequin" stops everything in one second, said by either of us, no explanation owed.
• This is the 2.0: every outfit gets a second opinion, and no one has to keep anything on.
• We stay in character until one of us says the shop is closed, and then we say it out loud.

If the idea is new to either of you, Questions that go deeper walks through it before you try it with a partner.

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