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4 requirements

Style

Details

Craftsmanship

Budget

300

Craft

Quality is scored while you sew

A quality threshold is not something a recipe can prove. The dress below settles every design requirement; this number is decided by your hands on the machine.

Need 80 or more

What decides the final number

  • Grain — cutting the fabric on the correct line
  • Fit — how closely the garment follows the body
  • Sewing accuracy — how cleanly the seams are run
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Recommended solution

A Validated Dress That Works

One dress checked against every requirement of this brief, piece by piece, using the game's own score data.

Validated against game data

Patterns

  • Bodice

    Milkmaid Bodice from Dressmaker

    Milkmaid Bodice

  • Skirt

    Single Tiered Skirt from Dressmaker

    Single Tiered Skirt

  • Sleeve

    No Sleeves from Dressmaker

    No Sleeves

  • Collar

    No Collar from Dressmaker

    No Collar

Fabrics

Met

Why it passes

  • Playful53 / 50
    Playful: 53 reached, 50 required · Playful at least 50
  • Cute53 / 50
    Cute: 53 reached, 50 required · Cute at least 50
  • Bell3 / 3
    Bell: 3 reached, 3 required · Bell at least 3

Smallest margin: Bell at 3 / 3

Craft

  • Quality≥ 80
    Craft · Quality at least 80

Need 80 or more

How Quality is judged

Why This Works

The declared weight behind each style this brief scores, so you can see which piece is carrying it.

Why this dress reaches Playful 53 / 50

53 / 50

Brief asks for 50

Where the weight comes from

Need more Playful?

Why this dress reaches Cute 53 / 50

53 / 50

Brief asks for 50

Where the weight comes from

Need more Cute?

These are the weights the game declares for each piece. They explain the dress; the build does not publish how several sources are folded into the final style score, so nothing here is added up into a total.

Cost and fabric usage

What this dress spends, and how much cloth it consumes.

Estimated material cost

23

  • Fabric0
  • Accessories23
Budget limit
300
Left over
277

Estimated fabric usage

3.43metres

Cutting estimates from the recipe itself, with each fabric's measured share of the dress beside it.

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Other Solutions

The same brief, solved a different way. Every dress here clears the design requirements and leaves the craft to you.

6 validated solutions found
  • The recommended dress above is also the cheapest solution we found.
  • It also asks for less progress than any other dress we found.

Other Dresses That Work

A few more dresses that meet the same brief, if the recommended one does not suit your wardrobe.

No further validated dress was found for this brief.

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Can I Make This Yet?

Everything this dress depends on, and the level that opens it.

Required unlocks

7 unlock rules behind this dress

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Your progress

Enter the levels you have and this page will tell you what is still missing.

No levels saved yet. Enter your Prestige and relationship levels to see which pieces you are short of.

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Why isn't my dress passing?

The reasons this particular brief turns a dress down, written for the requirements it actually contains.

Playful is still too low

Your dress needs Playful 50. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.

Playful

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Cute is still too low

Your dress needs Cute 50. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.

Cute

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Bell count is wrong

This brief asks for 3 Bell. Check that each placed accessory matches the required accessory type, and that all of them were placed on the dress.

Bell

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Quality is below 80

Quality is not decided by what you chose, but by how the dress was made. Check the grain line, the fit and how cleanly the seams were sewn.

Quality

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The dress is right, the finish is not

A dress can match every design requirement and still miss the quality threshold. Re-cut it with an eye on grain and fit before changing the recipe.

Need 80 or more

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Tips for This Commission

The things this particular brief makes easy to get wrong.

  1. Prioritise Playful

    Patterns and fabrics carry the most Playful weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 50.

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  2. Prioritise Cute

    Patterns and fabrics carry the most Cute weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 50.

    See the best Cute items
  3. Count Bell carefully

    The brief needs 3 Bell, and only accessories of the matching type count. Add them one at a time and check the count after each.

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  4. Leave room for the finish

    This brief needs Quality 80. A dress that only just clears the design requirements leaves you no slack on the machine, so aim a little higher on style.

    How Quality is judged
  5. Stay under the budget

    The customer sets a budget of 300. Substituting cheaper cloth of the same colour and fabric type is usually the easiest place to save.

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Questions about this commission

Does A-maze-ingly Lost have only one solution?

No. The game data yields 6 validated dresses for this brief. This page publishes the recommended one and the reason it passes; the solver is where you walk through the others.

What does the brief actually require?

This one scores Playful ≥ 50, Cute ≥ 50. Fabric, colour, accessory and craft rules, where present, are listed on the brief card at the top of the page.

What Quality do I need?

The brief asks for Quality 80. That number comes from how the dress is cut and sewn, not from the recipe, so no outfit can guarantee it for you.

Can I use another fabric?

This brief sets no fabric rule, so any cloth is allowed. Colour, style weight and cost are the only things to weigh up.

Why doesn't my dress pass?

Work through the requirements one by one: a dress fails on the first rule it misses. Style and composition rules are decided by what you chose, Quality by how you sewed it, so the fix is different for each.

Which unlocks does this dress need?

The recommended dress leans on: Works from Prestige 13. Anything else on the list is available from the start.

What comes after this commission?

The next commission for this customer is Walking Billboard. Completing this one may raise their relationship level, which is what unlocks the patterns you will want for it.

Where this commission fits

Every commission for this customer in the order the game gives them.

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About Fiona

9 commissions, relationship up to level 5.

Relationship

What Fiona unlocks as you grow closer

A completed commission raises this relationship. Patterns arrive when the level itself goes up, not when a single commission is handed in.

Patterns waiting at each level

If finishing this commission raises the relationship to the next level, the patterns listed at that level unlock at the same time.

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