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Studious Motivation
Gothic ≥ 40, Romantic ≥ 25, Lace Trim ≥ 100 cm, Quality ≥ 75
- Validated dress available
- Budget 250
Customer Brief
4 requirements
Style
- Gothic≥ 40
What does this mean?
Gothic at least 40
See the best Gothic items - Romantic≥ 25
What does this mean?
Romantic at least 25
See the best Romantic items
Details
- Lace Trim≥ 100 cm
What does this mean?
Craftsmanship
- Quality≥ 75
What does this mean?
Quality at least 75
How Quality is judged
Budget
250
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
Recommended solution
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
Twilight Hour Bodice
Skirt
Pencil Skirt
Sleeve
No Sleeves
Collar
Peter Pan Collar
Fabrics
Accessories
Met
Why it passes
- Gothic45 / 40Gothic: 45 reached, 40 required · Gothic at least 40
- Romantic25 / 25Romantic: 25 reached, 25 required · Romantic at least 25
- Lace Trim100 / 100Lace Trim: 100 reached, 100 required · Lace Trim at least 100
Smallest margin: Romantic at 25 / 25
Recipe details
The exact dress this page was built from.
Shopping list
- Twilight Hour BodicePatternsBodice
- Gothic+25
- Romantic+15
- Pencil SkirtPatternsSkirt
- Gothic+10
- No SleevesPatternsSleeve
- Peter Pan CollarPatternsCollar
- BurlapFabrics96% of the dress
- Gothic−10
- Romantic−10
- Sky Blue CottonFabrics4% of the dress
- Romantic+50
- Black Silk Square BowAccessories×4
- Gothic+5
- Romantic+3
- Bordeaux Red Looping LaceAccessories×1
- Gothic+5
- Romantic+3
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 Gothic 45 / 40
45 / 40
Brief asks for 40
Where the weight comes from
- Pattern+35
- Fabric−10
- Burlap−1096%
- Accessory+10
- Black Silk Square Bow+54 used
- Bordeaux Red Looping Lace+51 used
Why this dress reaches Romantic 25 / 25
25 / 25
Brief asks for 25
Where the weight comes from
- Fabric+40
- Sky Blue Cotton+504%
- Burlap−1096%
- Pattern+15
- Accessory+6
- Black Silk Square Bow+34 used
- Bordeaux Red Looping Lace+31 used
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
11
- Fabric1
- Accessories10
- Budget limit
- 250
- Left over
- 239
Estimated fabric usage
1,41metres
- Burlap96% of the dress
- Sky Blue Cotton4% of the dress
Cutting estimates from the recipe itself, with each fabric's measured share of the dress beside it.
Work out another buildOther 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.
Find more combinationsCan I Make This Yet?
Everything this dress depends on, and the level that opens it.
Required unlocks
8 unlock rules behind this dress
Requires Vivian Relationship 1
See Vivian's unlocks
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.
Set my progressWhy isn't my dress passing?
The reasons this particular brief turns a dress down, written for the requirements it actually contains.
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
See the best Gothic itemsRomantic is still too low
Your dress needs Romantic 25. Look at the pattern and the fabric first: those two carry most of a style score, and accessories add on top of them.
Romantic
See the best Romantic itemsLace Trim length is short
The brief asks for 100 of Lace Trim. Length is measured as placed, so a longer trim on fewer pieces can beat short pieces used everywhere.
Lace Trim
Find Lace Trim for this briefQuality 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
Work out my Quality scoreThe 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
Estimate the quality of a dressTips for This Commission
The things this particular brief makes easy to get wrong.
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 itemsPrioritise Romantic
Patterns and fabrics carry the most Romantic weight, so settle those two before adding accessories for the last few points towards 25.
See the best Romantic itemsMeasure Lace Trim
This brief asks for 100 of Lace Trim. Longer pieces are worth more than many short ones, so place the longest trim the design allows.
Find Lace Trim for this briefLeave 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 judgedStay under the budget
The customer sets a budget of 250. Substituting cheaper cloth of the same colour and fabric type is usually the easiest place to save.
See the cost breakdown
Questions about this commission
Does Studious Motivation 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 Gothic ≥ 40, Romantic ≥ 25. 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 sets no fabric rule, so any cloth is allowed. Colour, style weight and cost are the only things to weigh up.
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 Vivian Relationship 1. Anything else on the list is available from the start.
What comes after this commission?
The next commission for this customer is Raven Rising. 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.
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- Step 5 of 9Raven Rising
About Alice
9 commissions, relationship up to level 5.
Relationship
What Alice 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
Relationship 1
3 patterns
Relationship 2
5 patterns
Relationship 3
2 patterns
Relationship 4
2 patterns
Relationship 5
No patterns at this level
If finishing this commission raises the relationship to the next level, the patterns listed at that level unlock at the same time.
Related styles and items
Where the requirements on this page lead, and what else the game says is worth using.
Styles this brief scores
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Used in this recipe
The shopping list behind the recommended dress.
Good alternatives
Strong contributors to the styles this brief scores, ranked by the weight the game itself declares.
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- Black Magic VelvetStrong Gothic contributorGothic+80
- Black PlaidStrong Gothic contributorGothic+80
- Amethyst Purple VelvetStrong Romantic contributorRomantic+50
- Aurora Bicolour SilkStrong Romantic contributorRomantic+50
- Azure SilkStrong Romantic contributorRomantic+50
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