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Elegant

Find patterns, fabrics and accessories that contribute to Elegant, then work toward the score you need.

Restrained and well cut, where the line does the work instead of the decoration.

How this site reads the style. The game ships no description for any of them.

What is behind this style

Strong sources
Patterns · Fabrics · Accessories
Asked for by
17 briefs
Contributors in the catalogue
137 patterns · 225 fabrics · 104 accessories
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How to raise Elegant

Four things decide it, and none of them is a formula you have to work out here.

  1. Cut patterns that add it

    A pattern declares Elegant as a trait of the cut, before any cloth is laid on it. The strongest are listed below with their weight.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 Elegant score do you need?

The quick values are the scores this build's briefs actually state for Elegant.

Patterns that add Elegant

The six strongest cuts for Elegant, 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 137

Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.

  • Heart Princess Bodice from Dressmaker
    Heart Princess BodiceBodice

    Elegant +25

    2 variantsLow fabric use

    Prudence · relationship 1

  • Junon Skirt from Dressmaker
    Junon SkirtSkirt

    Elegant +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Ruched Sweetheart Bodice from Dressmaker
    Ruched Sweetheart BodiceBodice

    Elegant +25

    2 variantsLow fabric use

    Prudence · relationship 2

  • Venus Skirt from Dressmaker
    Venus SkirtSkirt

    Elegant +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Bias Cut Skirt from Dressmaker
    Bias Cut SkirtSkirt

    Elegant +25

    1 variantHigh fabric use

    Available from the start

  • Bo Peep Skirt from Dressmaker
    Bo Peep SkirtSkirt

    Elegant +20

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

See all 137 Elegant patterns

Fabrics that contribute to Elegant

The six strongest fabrics for Elegant, in three orders. Two fabrics on the same weight are ordered by price.

6 of 225

Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.

See all 225 Elegant fabrics

Accessories that help raise Elegant

The six strongest decorations for Elegant, in three orders. Two on the same weight are ordered by price.

6 of 104

Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.

See all 104 Elegant accessories

What pulls Elegant down

Some pieces carry Elegant as a negative weight, so a dress built around them loses points instead of gaining them. These are the strongest of them.

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 Elegant 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.

Available from the start

What a save already has on its first day.

  • Pattern

    Bias Cut Skirt from Dressmaker
    Bias Cut SkirtSkirt

    Elegant +25

    1 variantHigh fabric use

    Available from the start

  • Fabric

    Amber Silk from Dressmaker
    Amber SilkSilk

    Elegant +50

    Cost 50

    Available from the start

  • Accessory

    Abalone Saucer Button from Dressmaker
    Abalone Saucer ButtonButton · Individual

    Elegant +3

    Cost 1

    Available from the start

Briefs that ask for Elegant

Every published brief whose requirements state a Elegant score, the hardest first.

Elegant 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 more3 briefs
  • 50 or more12 briefs
  • 65 or more1 brief
Browse every brief that asks for Elegant

Pick a source for Elegant

Sort the strongest patterns, fabrics and decorations that carry Elegant 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.

34 of 34 sources

Every source that carries Elegant is here, sorted by how hard it pushes. A piece that never appears can still belong in a Elegant dress — it just does not move the style on its own.

What affects Elegant?

Three things carry a style, and they do not carry it the same way.

  • Patterns

    Some patterns add Elegant 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 Elegant 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 explanation

Working toward Elegant?

This page says what carries the style. These four do the building, the measuring, the repairing and the aiming.

Styles that share a brief with Elegant

The styles the same briefs also score, most shared first.

All 22 styles

Elegant questions

  • How do I get Elegant in Dressmaker?

    137 patterns, 225 fabrics and 104 decorations carry Elegant. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.

  • Which patterns give Elegant?

    137 patterns carry Elegant. The strongest is Heart Princess Bodice, which counts 25 of it.

  • Which fabrics carry Elegant?

    225 fabrics carry Elegant. Amber Silk is the strongest, at 50.

  • Which decorations carry Elegant?

    Abalone Saucer Button is the strongest of the 104 decorations carrying Elegant, at 3.

  • How do I reach Elegant 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 Elegant 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 Elegant?

    Yes. 4 pieces count Elegant 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 Elegant 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 Elegant by different amounts in two different dresses.