Instead of clicking through 27 pages of 5 shirts with differing colors/patterns, why not show the shirt style on the left, and have the color/pattern choices on the right? They do something similar on the initial pirate set up screen.
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|Shirt 1 | |
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| | |
|Shirt 2 | |
| | Color/Pattern |
| | Choices in |
|Shirt 3 | This area |
| | |
| | |
|Shirt 4 | |
| | |
| | |
|Shirt 5 | |
| | |
|_____________________< page >__________________|_________________________________|
Click on the shirt, then when you click on the Color/Pattern option it will appear on the shirt you have selected.