Saving a 'costume' between 2 layouts in a dress-up game

I have a 'closet' layout where you can 'dress up' a cactus that I want to bring to my other layout which is the 'shelf'/display layout where you can view your cacti. I'm not sure how I can bring my dressed up cactus from one layout, to my shelf/display layout?

Also, should I be using an array or something to sort my closet items out? I only have a very general idea of what arrays are and have never used one, any help or

direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much!!

When dressed is the cactus still one object? Is it a few sprites attached together?

When dressed is the cactus still one object? Is it a few sprites attached together?

Yes, the cactus and clothes are separate objects. It's a few sprites attached together.

Create the costume and place it in the same spot as the head of the cactus.

Let the first frame always be a BLANK IMAGE.

Keep other costume styles in the next frames

-Create a Global Variable for the hat frame

-Every tick set the Hat animation frame to Global Variable Hat_Style. That way Hat_style = 0 is always blank.

-Don't forget to stop hat animation at the start of a layout

You will need to have the cactus and clothing in all layout where it will be used if they are separate sprites.

You can set them to be attached using a global variable that will pass information between layouts.