Dressmaker Style Tag
Cool
Find patterns, fabrics and accessories that contribute to Cool, then work toward the score you need.
Unbothered and a little aloof — sharp lines, muted cloth, no fuss.
How this site reads the style. The game ships no description for any of them.
What is behind this style
- Strong sources
- Patterns · Fabrics
- Asked for by
- 5 briefs
- Contributors in the catalogue
- 75 patterns · 232 fabrics · no accessory
How to raise Cool
Four things decide it, and none of them is a formula you have to work out here.
Cut patterns that add it
A pattern declares Cool as a trait of the cut, before any cloth is laid on it. The strongest are listed below with their weight.
Choose fabric that supports it
Cloth carries the style through the parts of the dress it covers, so the same fabric counts for more on a larger piece.
Place accessories that contribute
A bow, a button or a length of trim adds its own weight where it sits, and each further one on the same style counts for less than the last.
Check the whole dress
The score a brief reads belongs to the finished dress rather than to any one of its parts. Measure it once the dress is built.
What Cool score do you need?
The quick values are the scores this build's briefs actually state for Cool.
Patterns that add Cool
The six strongest cuts for Cool, by the weight the game gives the pattern itself. Two patterns on the same weight are ordered by how much cloth they take.
6 of 75
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
Fabrics that contribute to Cool
The six strongest fabrics for Cool, in three orders. Two fabrics on the same weight are ordered by price.
6 of 232
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
Accessories that help raise Cool
The six strongest decorations for Cool, in three orders. Two on the same weight are ordered by price.
No accessory in this build declares Cool. Patterns and fabrics are what move it.
What pulls Cool down
Some pieces carry Cool as a negative weight, so a dress built around them loses points instead of gaining them. These are the strongest of them.
- BurlapFabricCool -10
- Coat Dress BodicePatternCool -10
- Coat Dress SkirtPatternCool -10
- Belted Jacket BodicePatternCool -5
- Jacket BodicePatternCool -5
- Waterfall BodicePatternCool -5
The figure is the weight the game gives that piece on its own. What a whole dress loses also depends on how much of the dress the piece covers.
Need a cheaper or earlier option?
The lists above show the strongest choices. These are the single cheapest and the single earliest in each catalogue, drawn from everything that carries Cool and not only from the six.
Lowest cost
A pattern costs no money, so the pattern here is the one that takes the least cloth.
Pattern
Fabric
Available from the start
What a save already has on its first day.
Pattern
Fabric
Briefs that ask for Cool
Every published brief whose requirements state a Cool score, the hardest first.
3 requirements
Cool 50 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Risqué · Gothic
Cool 50 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Patterned · Daywear · Eclectic
Cool 50 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Elegant · Eclectic · Patterned
Cool 40 or more
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4 requirementsAlso asks for Cute · Gothic
Cool 25 or more
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Cool scores the briefs ask for
How many briefs state each score, so a target can be read against what the game actually demands.
- 25 or more1 brief
- 40 or more1 brief
- 50 or more3 briefs
Pick a source for Cool
Sort the strongest patterns, fabrics and decorations that carry Cool by how hard they push, what they cost and how soon you can have them.
Looking for
Order
Price
A pattern costs cloth rather than coin, so a price ceiling applies to fabrics and decorations.
Enter your Prestige and every gate is checked against where your save actually is.
21 of 21 sources
Every source that carries Cool is here, sorted by how hard it pushes. A piece that never appears can still belong in a Cool dress — it just does not move the style on its own.
What affects Cool?
Three things carry a style, and they do not carry it the same way.
Patterns
Some patterns add Cool directly, as a trait of the cut itself.
Fabrics
A fabric contributes through the parts of the dress it covers, and through how much of each part it covers.
Accessories
Decorations add their weight where they are placed, and several on the same style count for less each time one is added.
Two numbers that are not the same
Source value
The Cool figure printed on a pattern, a fabric or a decoration. It belongs to that piece and says how strongly the piece leans that way.
Final style score
What the finished dress reads once every part and every weighting is counted. Only a dress has one, which is why no piece on its own can promise a score.
A finished score is not those three added together. It depends on every pattern, fabric and accessory in the dress and on how much of the dress each one covers, which is why the number belongs to the finished garment rather than to any list on this page.
See the full style-score explanationWorking toward Cool?
This page says what carries the style. These four do the building, the measuring, the repairing and the aiming.
- Build toward CoolLay out a whole dress and aim it at the score you need, before you cut into anything.Build toward Cool
- Calculate my Cool scoreRead the Cool score a dress actually reaches, piece by piece.Calculate my Cool score
- My dress is short on CoolFind the smallest change that closes a gap when a dress misses the score.My dress is short on Cool
- Reach Cool on purposeSet a floor or a ceiling for Cool and get the patterns, fabrics and decorations that satisfy it.Reach Cool on purpose
Styles that share a brief with Cool
The styles the same briefs also score, most shared first.
Cool questions
How do I get Cool in Dressmaker?
75 patterns, 232 fabrics and 0 decorations carry Cool. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.
Which patterns give Cool?
75 patterns carry Cool. The strongest is Twilight Hour Bodice, which counts 25 of it.
Which fabrics carry Cool?
232 fabrics carry Cool. Amethyst Cotton is the strongest, at 50.
How do I reach Cool 50?
Set the goal to 50 in the style calculator and it searches for dresses that reach it, naming the piece behind every point.
Why did a second decoration give less Cool than the first?
Because the game scales repeated pushes at one style down. The first decoration adds its full weight, the second adds a fraction of its own, and each one after that a fraction of the fraction.
Can an item lower Cool?
Yes. 6 pieces count Cool below zero, and Burlap does it hardest at -10. On a dress they take those points away rather than adding them.
Does a fabric always give the same Cool score?
No. Cloth counts through the parts of the dress it covers and through how much of each part it covers, so one fabric moves Cool by different amounts in two different dresses.