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Black Cotton fabric swatch

Dressmaker Fabric

Black Cotton

Black Cotton is a Cotton fabric available from the start. Its strongest contribution is Casual +50.

  • Casual +50
  • Cool +50
  • Inexpensive
  • Available from the start
Fabric type
Cotton
Colours
Black
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Read from game build 25482629.

Is Black Cotton useful?

Four answers, all read from the game's own numbers.

Good for

Weak for

Nothing it touches goes down.

Cost

Inexpensive

Cheaper than 88% of the catalogue.

Availability

Available from the start

You have this fabric from the first day, with no relationship level or prestige level in the way.

Style scores

Raises 7 styles and lowers 0.

Fabric style scores add to the final style of your dress together with its patterns and accessories. A negative weight is a contribution too: cloth that lowers Formal is exactly what a brief asking for low Formal wants. How far it moves the score also depends on which part of the dress carries it.

How style scores add up

Properties

Fabric type
Colours
Cost
10 · Inexpensive
Unlock
Available from the start

How to get Black Cotton

Available from the start

You have this fabric from the first day, with no relationship level or prestige level in the way.

Your Prestige

This page answers from the Prestige level you enter; it never guesses one.

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Where this fabric works well

Read from Black Cotton against the other 351 fabrics, not written by hand.

Commissions where Black Cotton can help

Dresses the game itself validates with this fabric, and the requirement of each brief that the fabric answers.

Briefs that name what this fabric is

The commission board already indexes Black Cotton's material, colours and styles, so each of these opens on the briefs that ask for one of them.

Cotton requirements

Briefs that ask for a share of Cotton in the dress. Any Cotton cloth contributes — none of them names this fabric.

Colour requirements

Briefs that ask for a share of this colour. This fabric can contribute; the brief does not name it.

Style requirements

Briefs that ask for the styles this fabric moves. Moving a style is a contribution, not a guarantee.

Material and colour requirements are measured as a share of the finished garment, so the same cloth on a larger part counts for more than it does on a collar.

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Cheaper or earlier alternatives to Black Cotton

Two things put a fabric out of reach: the price and the gate. Both are answered with named cloths below.

Cheaper

The closest cloths that cost less than Black Cotton.

Similar fabrics

Alternatives to Black Cotton, matched on material, colour, style profile and price — with the differences already worked out.

Find alternatives

Hand this fabric to the fabric finder with the question already asked.

Try it in a dress

Everything above is about Black Cotton on its own. These pages are where it becomes a dress.

Black Cotton questions

  • How do I unlock Black Cotton?

    Black Cotton is one of the fabrics you have from the start — it carries no Prestige requirement.

  • What material is Black Cotton?

    Black Cotton is a Cotton fabric, and 82 obtainable fabrics share that material.

  • What colour is Black Cotton?

    Black Cotton is tagged Black.

  • What styles does Black Cotton add?

    Black Cotton contributes to Casual +50, Cool +50 and Daywear +50.

  • How much does Black Cotton cost?

    Black Cotton costs 10 — the Inexpensive band, cheaper than 88% of the catalogue.

  • What commissions can use Black Cotton?

    Validated commission solutions using Black Cotton: 6.

The systems behind this page

This page used four rules without teaching them. These are the pages that own them.

Cutting multi-panel pieces from this cloth? Gradients, stripes and prints need their panels lined up by hand. Take me to the pattern matching guide