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Customer Brief

4 requirements

Style

Colour

  • Black
    What does this mean?

    Use only Black

Craftsmanship

Budget

300

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 75 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

    One Shoulder Bodice from Dressmaker

    One Shoulder Bodice

  • Skirt

    Corset Skirt from Dressmaker

    Corset Skirt

  • Sleeve

    Flounce Sleeve from Dressmaker

    Flounce Sleeve

  • Collar

    No Collar from Dressmaker

    No Collar

Accessories

Met

Why it passes

  • Formal50 / 50
    Formal: 50 reached, 50 required · Formal at least 50
  • Gothic46 / 40
    Gothic: 46 reached, 40 required · Gothic at least 40
  • Black
    Use only Black

Smallest margin: Formal at 50 / 50

Craft

  • Quality≥ 75
    Craft · Quality at least 75

Need 75 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 Formal 50 / 50

50 / 50

Brief asks for 50

Where the weight comes from

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Why this dress reaches Gothic 46 / 40

46 / 40

Brief asks for 40

Where the weight comes from

Need more Gothic?

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
Black
Reached
This dress passes the rule, but the build publishes no measured percentage for it.

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.

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

25

  • Fabric17
  • Accessories8
Budget limit
300
Left over
275

Estimated fabric usage

2,19metres

Cutting estimates from the recipe itself, with each fabric's measured share of the dress beside it.

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Other Solutions

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

6 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

6 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.

Formal is still too low

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

Formal

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Gothic is still too low

Your dress needs Gothic 40. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.

Gothic

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Something in the dress is not allowed

This brief limits which Black may appear at all. One forbidden colour or fabric is enough to fail the whole dress, so check every piece you placed.

Black

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Quality is below 75

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 75 or more

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Tips for This Commission

The things this particular brief makes easy to get wrong.

  1. Prioritise Formal

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

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  2. Prioritise Gothic

    Patterns and fabrics carry the most Gothic weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 40.

    See the best Gothic items
  3. Nothing forbidden anywhere

    This brief forbids certain Black entirely. A single forbidden piece fails the dress, so go through the shopping list before you sew.

  4. Leave room for the finish

    This brief needs Quality 75. 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
  5. Stay under the budget

    The customer sets a budget of 300. Substituting cheaper cloth of the same colour and fabric type is usually the easiest place to save.

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Questions about this commission

Does Fierce Funeral have only one solution?

No. The game data yields 6 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 Formal ≥ 50, Gothic ≥ 40. 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 75. 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: Black. 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: Requires Edith Relationship 1. Anything else on the list is available from the start.

What comes after this commission?

The next commission for this customer is Sewn in the Stars. 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.

Priya from Dressmaker

About Priya

10 commissions, relationship up to level 5.

Relationship

What Priya 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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