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Plum Silk fabric swatch

Dressmaker Fabric

Plum Silk

Plum Silk is a Silk fabric available from the start. Its strongest contribution is Elegant +50.

  • Elegant +50
  • Eveningwear +50
  • Expensive
  • Available from the start
Fabric type
Silk
Colours
Purple
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Read from game build 25482629.

Is Plum Silk useful?

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

Good for

Weak for

Nothing it touches goes down.

Cost

Expensive

Cheaper than 38% 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 10 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
50 · Expensive
Unlock
Available from the start

How to get Plum Silk

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.

Enter or change my Prestige
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Where this fabric works well

Read from Plum Silk against the other 351 fabrics, not written by hand.

Commissions where Plum Silk can help

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

No validated dress in this build is sewn from Plum Silk. Rather than list the briefs that would merely allow it, here is where its material, colours and styles are actually asked for.

Briefs that name what this fabric is

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

Silk requirements

Briefs that ask for a share of Silk in the dress. Any Silk 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.

Check what a dress costs and whether it passes, before you spend the fabric.

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Cheaper or earlier alternatives to Plum Silk

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 Plum Silk.

Similar fabrics

Alternatives to Plum Silk, 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 Plum Silk on its own. These pages are where it becomes a dress.

Plum Silk questions

  • How do I unlock Plum Silk?

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

  • What material is Plum Silk?

    Plum Silk is a Silk fabric, and 112 obtainable fabrics share that material.

  • What colour is Plum Silk?

    Plum Silk is tagged Purple.

  • What styles does Plum Silk add?

    Plum Silk contributes to Elegant +50, Eveningwear +50 and Formal +50.

  • How much does Plum Silk cost?

    Plum Silk costs 50 — the Expensive band, cheaper than 38% of the catalogue.

  • What commissions can use Plum Silk?

    No validated solution uses Plum Silk directly. The commission board still indexes its material, colours and styles, and the groups above link to each.

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