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Biographer's Interview
Daywear ≥ 50, Glamour ≥ 25, Risqué ≥ 20, Brooch ≥ 1, Quality ≥ 75
- Validated dress available
- Budget 500
Customer Brief
5 requirements
Style
- Daywear≥ 50
What does this mean?
Daywear at least 50
See the best Daywear items - Glamour≥ 25
What does this mean?
Glamour at least 25
See the best Glamour items - Risqué≥ 20
What does this mean?
Risqué at least 20
See the best Risqué items
Details
- Brooch≥ 1
What does this mean?
Craftsmanship
- Quality≥ 75
What does this mean?
Quality at least 75
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 75 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
Cinched Keyhole Blouse
Skirt
Scallop Skirt
Sleeve
Short Puffed Sleeve
Collar
Peter Pan Collar
Accessories
Met
Why it passes
- Daywear50 / 50Daywear: 50 reached, 50 required · Daywear at least 50
- Glamour44 / 25Glamour: 44 reached, 25 required · Glamour at least 25
- Risqué20 / 20Risqué: 20 reached, 20 required · Risqué at least 20
- Brooch1 / 1Brooch: 1 reached, 1 required · Brooch at least 1
Smallest margin: Daywear at 50 / 50
Recipe details
The exact dress this page was built from.
Shopping list
- Cinched Keyhole BlousePatternsBodice
- Daywear+10
- Glamour+25
- Risqué+25
- Scallop SkirtPatternsSkirt
- Daywear+25
- Glamour+10
- Short Puffed SleevePatternsSleeve
- Daywear+10
- Peter Pan CollarPatternsCollar
- Daywear+5
- BurlapFabrics98% of the dress
- Daywear−10
- Glamour−10
- Risqué−10
- Black CottonFabrics1% of the dress
- Daywear+50
- Green Swirling Serpent Cotton PrintFabrics1% of the dress
- Glamour+25
- Risqué+50
- Golden French ClaspAccessories×1
- Daywear+3
- Risqué+1
- Diamond Cut Jade JewelAccessories×4
- Glamour+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 50 / 50
50 / 50
Brief asks for 50
Where the weight comes from
- Pattern+50
- Fabric+40
- Black Cotton+501%
- Burlap−1098%
- Accessory+3
- Golden French Clasp+31 used
Why this dress reaches Glamour 44 / 25
44 / 25
Brief asks for 25
Where the weight comes from
- Pattern+35
- Fabric+15
- Green Swirling Serpent Cotton Print+251%
- Burlap−1098%
- Accessory+5
- Diamond Cut Jade Jewel+54 used
Why this dress reaches Risqué 20 / 20
20 / 20
Brief asks for 20
Where the weight comes from
- Fabric+40
- Green Swirling Serpent Cotton Print+501%
- Burlap−1098%
- Pattern+25
- Accessory+1
- Golden French Clasp+11 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
66
- Fabric1
- Accessories65
- Budget limit
- 500
- Left over
- 434
Estimated fabric usage
3.32metres
- Burlap98% of the dress
- Black Cotton1% of the dress
- Green Swirling Serpent Cotton Print1% 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
9 unlock rules behind this dress
Works from Prestige 25
Works from Prestige 8
Works from Prestige 4
Requires Dorothy Relationship 2
See Dorothy's unlocks
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.
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 50. 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 itemsGlamour is still too low
Your dress needs Glamour 25. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.
Glamour
See the best Glamour itemsRisqué is still too low
Your dress needs Risqué 20. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.
Risqué
See the best Risqué itemsBrooch count is wrong
This brief asks for 1 Brooch. Check that each placed accessory matches the required accessory type, and that all of them were placed on the dress.
Brooch
Find Brooch for this briefQuality is below 75
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 75 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 50.
See the best Daywear itemsPrioritise Glamour
Patterns and fabrics carry the most Glamour weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 25.
See the best Glamour itemsPrioritise Risqué
Patterns and fabrics carry the most Risqué weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 20.
See the best Risqué itemsCount Brooch carefully
The brief needs 1 Brooch, and only accessories of the matching type count. Add them one at a time and check the count after each.
Find Brooch for this briefLeave room for the finish
This brief needs Quality 75. 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
Questions about this commission
Does Biographer's Interview 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 ≥ 50, Glamour ≥ 25, Risqué ≥ 20. 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 75. 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 25, Works from Prestige 8, Works from Prestige 4, Requires Dorothy Relationship 2. Anything else on the list is available from the start.
What comes after this commission?
The next commission for this customer is Phoenix Costume. 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.
About Edith
9 commissions, relationship up to level 4.
Relationship
What Edith 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
3 patterns
Relationship 2
3 patterns
Relationship 3
3 patterns
Relationship 4
2 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.
- Cinched Keyhole BlouseBodiceDaywear+10
- Scallop SkirtSkirtDaywear+25
- Short Puffed SleeveSleeveDaywear+10
- Peter Pan CollarCollarDaywear+5
- Burlap98% of the dressDaywear−10
- Black Cotton1% of the dressDaywear+50
- Green Swirling Serpent Cotton Print1% of the dressGlamour+25
- Golden French ClaspUsed ×1Daywear+3
- Diamond Cut Jade JewelUsed ×4Glamour+5
Good alternatives
Strong contributors to the styles this brief scores, ranked by the weight the game itself declares.
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- Aqua Blue CottonStrong Daywear contributorDaywear+50
- Arctic LinenStrong Daywear contributorDaywear+50
- Alexandria Printed VelvetStrong Glamour contributorGlamour+50
- Amber VelvetStrong Glamour contributorGlamour+50
- Amethyst Purple VelvetStrong Glamour contributorGlamour+50
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