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Detective Dorothy
Professional ≥ 50, Gothic ≥ 40, Wool ≥ 50%, Quality ≥ 80
- Validated dress available
- Budget 750
Customer Brief
4 requirements
Finish first
Style
- Professional≥ 50
What does this mean?
Professional at least 50
See the best Professional items - Gothic≥ 40
What does this mean?
Gothic at least 40
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Materials
- Wool≥ 50%
What does this mean?
Wool at least 50
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Craftsmanship
- Quality≥ 80
What does this mean?
Quality at least 80
How Quality is judged
Budget
750
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
Cinched Keyhole Blouse
Skirt
Pencil Skirt
Sleeve
Flounce Sleeve
Collar
No Collar
Accessories
Met
Why it passes
- Professional65 / 50Professional: 65 reached, 50 required · Professional at least 50
- Gothic69 / 40Gothic: 69 reached, 40 required · Gothic at least 40
- Wool50% / 50%Wool: 50 reached, 50 required · Wool at least 50
Smallest margin: Wool at 50% / 50%
Recipe details
The exact dress this page was built from.
Shopping list
- Cinched Keyhole BlousePatternsBodice
- Professional+15
- Gothic+20
- Pencil SkirtPatternsSkirt
- Professional+20
- Gothic+10
- Flounce SleevePatternsSleeve
- Professional+5
- Gothic+5
- No CollarPatternsCollar
- BurlapFabrics50% of the dress
- Professional−10
- Gothic−10
- Black Wool PinstripesFabrics50% of the dress
- Professional+50
- Gothic+80
- Gunmetal Shank ButtonAccessories×2
- Professional+5
- Skinny Bow BlackAccessories×2
- Professional+2
- Gothic+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 Professional 65 / 50
65 / 50
Brief asks for 50
Where the weight comes from
- Fabric+40
- Black Wool Pinstripes+5050%
- Burlap−1050%
- Pattern+40
- Accessory+7
- Gunmetal Shank Button+52 used
- Skinny Bow Black+22 used
Why this dress reaches Gothic 69 / 40
69 / 40
Brief asks for 40
Where the weight comes from
- Fabric+70
- Black Wool Pinstripes+8050%
- Burlap−1050%
- Pattern+35
- Accessory+5
- Skinny Bow Black+52 used
Fabric and colour composition
This brief measures part of the dress by area, so here is what the recommended dress is actually made of.
- The rule
- Wool ≥ 50%
- Reached
- 50% / 50%
Measured areas
- Brown
50% of the dress
50% of the dress
Shares are the recipe's own measured fabric areas. A fabric that carries two colours counts towards both, so the rows are areas rather than a colour-by-colour percentage.
Browse commissions asking for WoolThese 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
13
- Fabric7
- Accessories6
- Budget limit
- 750
- Left over
- 737
Estimated fabric usage
2.13metres
- Burlap50% of the dress
- Black Wool Pinstripes50% 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.
2 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.
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.
Professional is still too low
Your dress needs Professional 50. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.
Professional
See the best Professional itemsGothic is still too low
Your dress needs Gothic 40. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.
Gothic
See the best Gothic itemsWool is not registering
The rule counts area. You need 50 of the dress cut from Wool, so a trim or a lining will not be enough on its own.
Wool
Browse commissions asking for WoolQuality 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 Professional
Patterns and fabrics carry the most Professional weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 50.
See the best Professional itemsPrioritise Gothic
Patterns and fabrics carry the most Gothic weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 40.
See the best Gothic itemsChoose the cloth first
You need 50 of the dress in Wool. Decide that before the pattern, because swapping fabric later usually means re-cutting every piece.
Browse commissions asking for WoolLeave 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 750. 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 Detective Dorothy have only one solution?
No. The game data yields 2 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 Professional ≥ 50, Gothic ≥ 40. 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 does have a fabric rule: Wool ≥ 50%. Any cloth of the right kind can work as long as the measured areas still satisfy it.
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.
Where this commission fits
Every commission for this customer in the order the game gives them.
About Dorothy
8 commissions, relationship up to level 5.
Relationship
What Dorothy 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
3 patterns
Relationship 5
No patterns at this level
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
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Used in this recipe
The shopping list behind the recommended dress.
Good alternatives
Strong contributors to the styles this brief scores, ranked by the weight the game itself declares.
- Absynthe LaceStrong Gothic contributorGothic+80
- Black Magic VelvetStrong Gothic contributorGothic+80
- Black PlaidStrong Gothic contributorGothic+80
- Black & White Polka LinenStrong Professional contributorProfessional+50
- Black CorduroyStrong Professional contributorProfessional+50
- Angel's Trumpet SleeveStrong Gothic contributorGothic+25
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