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5 requirements

Style

Materials

Details

Craftsmanship

Budget

400

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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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 from Dressmaker

    Cinched Keyhole Blouse

  • Skirt

    Bias Cut Skirt from Dressmaker

    Bias Cut Skirt

  • Sleeve

    No Sleeves from Dressmaker

    No Sleeves

  • Collar

    No Collar from Dressmaker

    No Collar

Met

Why it passes

  • Elegant69 / 50
    Elegant: 69 reached, 50 required · Elegant at least 50
  • Glamour70 / 50
    Glamour: 70 reached, 50 required · Glamour at least 50
  • Velvet50% / 50%
    Velvet: 50 reached, 50 required · Velvet at least 50
  • Tassel5 / 5
    Tassel: 5 reached, 5 required · Tassel at least 5

Smallest margin: Velvet at 50% / 50%

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 Elegant 69 / 50

69 / 50

Brief asks for 50

Where the weight comes from

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Why this dress reaches Glamour 70 / 50

70 / 50

Brief asks for 50

Where the weight comes from

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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
Velvet ≥ 50%
Reached
50% / 50%

Measured areas

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.

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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

70

  • Fabric20
  • Accessories50
Budget limit
400
Left over
330

Other Solutions

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

3 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

9 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.

Elegant is still too low

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

Elegant

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Glamour is still too low

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

Glamour

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Velvet is not registering

The rule counts area. You need 50 of the dress cut from Velvet, so a trim or a lining will not be enough on its own.

Velvet

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Tassel count is wrong

This brief asks for 5 Tassel. Check that each placed accessory matches the required accessory type, and that all of them were placed on the dress.

Tassel

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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 Elegant

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

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  2. Prioritise Glamour

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

    See the best Glamour items
  3. Choose the cloth first

    You need 50 of the dress in Velvet. Decide that before the pattern, because swapping fabric later usually means re-cutting every piece.

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  4. Count Tassel carefully

    The brief needs 5 Tassel, and only accessories of the matching type count. Add them one at a time and check the count after each.

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  5. 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

Questions about this commission

Does Exotic Moth have only one solution?

No. The game data yields 3 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 Elegant ≥ 50, Glamour ≥ 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 does have a fabric rule: Velvet ≥ 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.

Which unlocks does this dress need?

The recommended dress leans on: Works from Prestige 40, Works from Prestige 4. Anything else on the list is available from the start.

What comes after this commission?

The next commission for this customer is Unstained Beauty. 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.

Vivian from Dressmaker

About Vivian

8 commissions, relationship up to level 4.

Relationship

What Vivian 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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