Dressmaker Guide
Use the client's bust, waist and hips measurements to set up the mannequin before you continue building the dress.
The three measurements the mannequin is sized to.
Client measurements
Example values — yours come from the client.
Before you start
Sizing the mannequin is applying numbers you have already taken. If the client has not been measured yet, do that first — there is nothing to match the mannequin against until then.
You should already have
Missing one of these?
Measure the client first.
The Measuring guide covers what each number is and how the game records it.
Size the mannequin
Each step changes one measurement. Check all three together before you confirm — Fit reads them as one figure, not three.
Step 1
Open the mannequin sizing controls and keep the client's measurements visible while you adjust. Drag the measuring tape onto the mannequin, then turn the gears to change its proportions.
Match the ghost outlines as you turn the gears. The outline shows the shape the client's numbers are asking for.
Step 2
Adjust the bust until the mannequin's bust matches the client's bust as closely as the game allows.
Client
Bust 84
Mannequin
Bust 84
Difference
0
The bust is only the first of three. Matching it does not finish the sizing.
Step 3
Adjust the waist until the mannequin's waist matches the client's waist measurement.
Client
Waist 66
Mannequin
Waist 66
Difference
0
Do not stop after matching the bust — Fit checks multiple measurements together.
Step 4
Adjust the hips until the mannequin's hips match the client's hips measurement, then read all three measurements back together.
Client
Hips 92
Mannequin
Hips 90
Difference
2
All three measurements, on the mannequin
Example values only. Your numbers are the ones the game recorded for this client.
Step 5
Fit is based on the combined difference across bust, waist and hips. A mannequin that is close on two of them and far off on the third is not sized yet.
Sizing check
A row that still reads a small difference is the one to adjust before you continue.
Example values only. Your numbers are the ones the game recorded for this client.
Click Confirm once you are satisfied with the mannequin sizing.
Fit
Fit is the distance between the client's measurements and the dress on the mannequin. Sizing the mannequin is where most of that distance gets closed.
Fit contributes 20% of Quality when the dress is made from the client's measurements.
See the full Quality calculationNot every dress is made from customer measurements. When a dress is not, Fit may not be part of its Quality at all — check the work in front of you before assuming it needs sizing.
The game compares the bust, waist and hips differences together. A larger mismatch reduces Fit much faster than a tiny difference does.
Troubleshooting
Nearly every sizing complaint is one of these five. Each one ends where its answer lives.
Check the waist and the hips as well. Fit is judged on all three together, so a mannequin that only matches the bust is not a sized mannequin.
Recheck the exact values rather than judging the mannequin by eye. Fit is a difference between numbers, not a resemblance.
Turning the form is a control question, not a sizing one.
Getting closer to the mannequin is a camera question, not a sizing one.
Work the list in order and stop at the first thing that is wrong.
Controls
Sizing is the numbers. If the trouble is turning the mannequin or getting close enough to read it, that is a control question and it is answered on its own page.
Changing the view never changes the measurements.
Not the mannequin
Sizing is one dial. Two others sit beside it and get blamed for its problems.
A different pattern changes the shape of the dress, not the client's measurements. It cannot close a sizing mismatch.
A different cloth does not replace correct sizing. It cannot move the mannequin closer to the client.
Keep going
Sizing sits in the middle of the build. From here the work either goes back to the measurements or forward into the dress.
What Bust, Waist and Hips mean, and how the game records them before you ever touch the mannequin.
OpenThe mannequin is sized — the next step is planning the dress that goes on it.
OpenWhere Fit sits in the final score, and what else moves it.
OpenRead this on its own, or follow the whole Dressmaker guide through the steps around it.