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Elaborate

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

Heavily built — many panels, layered trim and a lot of surface to look at.

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
16 briefs
Contributors in the catalogue
93 patterns · 80 fabrics · 76 accessories
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Build toward a Elaborate dress

How to raise Elaborate

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 Elaborate 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 Elaborate score do you need?

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

One brief asks for Elaborate to stay low instead of reaching a score. It is marked in the brief list below.

Patterns that add Elaborate

The six strongest cuts for Elaborate, 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 93

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

  • Junon Skirt from Dressmaker
    Junon SkirtSkirt

    Elaborate +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Venus Skirt from Dressmaker
    Venus SkirtSkirt

    Elaborate +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Bo Peep Skirt from Dressmaker
    Bo Peep SkirtSkirt

    Elaborate +15

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Petal Bow Skirt from Dressmaker
    Petal Bow SkirtSkirt

    Elaborate +15

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Twilight Hour Bodice from Dressmaker
    Twilight Hour BodiceBodice

    Elaborate +15

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Vivian · relationship 1

  • Black Widow Bodice from Dressmaker
    Black Widow BodiceBodice

    Elaborate +10

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

See all 93 Elaborate patterns

Fabrics that contribute to Elaborate

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

6 of 80

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

See all 80 Elaborate fabrics

Accessories that help raise Elaborate

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

6 of 76

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

See all 76 Elaborate accessories

What pulls Elaborate down

Some pieces carry Elaborate 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 Elaborate 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.

Briefs that ask for Elaborate

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

One of these briefs pays for Elaborate to stay low rather than to reach a score. It is marked, and a higher score does not help it.

Elaborate 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 more5 briefs
  • 30 or more2 briefs
  • 50 or more6 briefs
  • 75 or more1 brief
  • 80 or more1 brief

1 further briefs ask for Elaborate to stay low and are not in this list.

Browse every brief that asks for Elaborate

Pick a source for Elaborate

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

33 of 33 sources

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

What affects Elaborate?

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

  • Patterns

    Some patterns add Elaborate 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 Elaborate 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 Elaborate?

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 Elaborate

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

All 22 styles

Elaborate questions

  • How do I get Elaborate in Dressmaker?

    93 patterns, 80 fabrics and 76 decorations carry Elaborate. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.

  • Which patterns give Elaborate?

    93 patterns carry Elaborate. The strongest is Junon Skirt, which counts 25 of it.

  • Which fabrics carry Elaborate?

    80 fabrics carry Elaborate. Eclectic Winter Scallop Embroidered Cotton is the strongest, at 50.

  • Which decorations carry Elaborate?

    Blue Jay Feather is the strongest of the 76 decorations carrying Elaborate, at 5.

  • How do I reach Elaborate 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 Elaborate 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 Elaborate?

    Yes. 2 pieces count Elaborate 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 Elaborate 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 Elaborate by different amounts in two different dresses.