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Artistic Retreat
Daywear ≥ 75, Romantic ≥ 50, Flowers ≥ 50, Quality ≥ 80
- Validated dress available
- Budget 500
Customer Brief
4 requirements
Style
- Daywear≥ 75
What does this mean?
Daywear at least 75
See the best Daywear items - Romantic≥ 50
What does this mean?
Romantic at least 50
See the best Romantic items - Flowers≥ 50
What does this mean?
Flowers at least 50
See the best Flowers items
Craftsmanship
- Quality≥ 80
What does this mean?
Quality at least 80
How Quality is judged
Budget
500
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
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
Empire Waist Princess
Skirt
Chrysanthemum Skirt
Sleeve
Half Bishop Sleeve
Collar
Pussybow Collar
Accessories
Met
Why it passes
- Daywear75 / 75Daywear: 75 reached, 75 required · Daywear at least 75
- Romantic68 / 50Romantic: 68 reached, 50 required · Romantic at least 50
- Flowers71 / 50Flowers: 71 reached, 50 required · Flowers at least 50
Smallest margin: Daywear at 75 / 75
Recipe details
The exact dress this page was built from.
Shopping list
- Empire Waist PrincessPatternsBodice
- Daywear+25
- Romantic+10
- Chrysanthemum SkirtPatternsSkirt
- Daywear+20
- Romantic+20
- Flowers+25
- Half Bishop SleevePatternsSleeve
- Daywear+10
- Romantic+10
- Pussybow CollarPatternsCollar
- Daywear+5
- Romantic+3
- BurlapFabrics95% of the dress
- Daywear−10
- Romantic−10
- Flowers−20
- Midnight Garden Cotton PrintFabrics5% of the dress
- Daywear+50
- Romantic+50
- Flowers+100
- Lilac Silk DaisyAccessories×4
- Romantic+3
- Flowers+5
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 Daywear 75 / 75
75 / 75
Brief asks for 75
Where the weight comes from
- Pattern+60
- Fabric+40
- Midnight Garden Cotton Print+505%
- Burlap−1095%
Why this dress reaches Romantic 68 / 50
68 / 50
Brief asks for 50
Where the weight comes from
- Pattern+43
- Fabric+40
- Midnight Garden Cotton Print+505%
- Burlap−1095%
- Accessory+3
- Lilac Silk Daisy+34 used
Why this dress reaches Flowers 71 / 50
71 / 50
Brief asks for 50
Where the weight comes from
- Fabric+80
- Midnight Garden Cotton Print+1005%
- Burlap−2095%
- Pattern+25
- Accessory+5
- Lilac Silk Daisy+54 used
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
11
- Fabric3
- Accessories8
- Budget limit
- 500
- Left over
- 489
Estimated fabric usage
6.13metres
- Burlap95% of the dress
- Midnight Garden Cotton Print5% of the dress
Cutting estimates from the recipe itself, with each fabric's measured share of the dress beside it.
Work out another buildOther 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.
Find more combinationsCan I Make This Yet?
Everything this dress depends on, and the level that opens it.
Required unlocks
7 unlock rules behind this dress
Works from Prestige 51
Requires Fiona Relationship 3
See Fiona's unlocksUnlock source not published for one item
Your progress
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Set my progressWhy isn't my dress passing?
The reasons this particular brief turns a dress down, written for the requirements it actually contains.
Daywear is still too low
Your dress needs Daywear 75. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.
Daywear
See the best Daywear itemsRomantic is still too low
Your dress needs Romantic 50. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.
Romantic
See the best Romantic itemsFlowers is still too low
Your dress needs Flowers 50. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.
Flowers
See the best Flowers itemsQuality 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
Work out my Quality scoreThe 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
Estimate the quality of a dressTips for This Commission
The things this particular brief makes easy to get wrong.
Prioritise Daywear
Patterns and fabrics carry the most Daywear weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 75.
See the best Daywear itemsPrioritise Romantic
Patterns and fabrics carry the most Romantic weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 50.
See the best Romantic itemsPrioritise Flowers
Patterns and fabrics carry the most Flowers weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 50.
See the best Flowers itemsLeave 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 judgedStay under the budget
The customer sets a budget of 500. Substituting cheaper cloth of the same colour and fabric type is usually the easiest place to save.
See the cost breakdown
Questions about this commission
Does Artistic Retreat 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 Daywear ≥ 75, Romantic ≥ 50, Flowers ≥ 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 51, Requires Fiona Relationship 3, Unlock source not published for one item. Anything else on the list is available from the start.
What comes after this commission?
The next commission for this customer is Exhibition Opening. 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.
Commission 2 of 10
- Step 1 of 10A gift for Priya
- You are herePriyaYou are here
- Step 3 of 10Exhibition Opening
About Priya
10 commissions, relationship up to level 5.
Relationship
What Priya 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
Relationship 1
4 patterns
Relationship 2
3 patterns
Relationship 3
3 patterns
Relationship 4
3 patterns
Relationship 5
1 patterns
If finishing this commission raises the relationship to the next level, the patterns listed at that level unlock at the same time.
Related styles and items
Where the requirements on this page lead, and what else the game says is worth using.
Styles this brief scores
Each style target opens the page that owns it, so you can find strong pieces yourself.
Used in this recipe
The shopping list behind the recommended dress.
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Strong contributors to the styles this brief scores, ranked by the weight the game itself declares.
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