Dressmaker Style Tag
Gothic
Find patterns, fabrics and accessories that contribute to Gothic, then work toward the score you need.
Dark, severe and dramatic, with weight in the cloth.
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
- 21 briefs
- Contributors in the catalogue
- 65 patterns · 122 fabrics · 53 accessories
How to raise Gothic
Four things decide it, and none of them is a formula you have to work out here.
Cut patterns that add it
A pattern declares Gothic as a trait of the cut, before any cloth is laid on it. The strongest are listed below with their weight.
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.
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.
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 Gothic score do you need?
The quick values are the scores this build's briefs actually state for Gothic.
Patterns that add Gothic
The six strongest cuts for Gothic, 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 65
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
Fabrics that contribute to Gothic
The six strongest fabrics for Gothic, in three orders. Two fabrics on the same weight are ordered by price.
6 of 122
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
Accessories that help raise Gothic
The six strongest decorations for Gothic, in three orders. Two on the same weight are ordered by price.
6 of 53
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
What pulls Gothic down
Some pieces carry Gothic 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 Gothic 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.
Pattern
Fabric
Accessory
Available from the start
What a save already has on its first day.
Pattern
Fabric
Accessory
Briefs that ask for Gothic
Every published brief whose requirements state a Gothic score, the hardest first.
5 requirementsAlso asks for Elaborate
Gothic 80 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Risqué · Cool
Gothic 75 or more
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7 requirementsAlso asks for Elaborate
Gothic 75 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Risqué
Gothic 60 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Elaborate · Glamour
Gothic 60 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Risqué · Glamour
Gothic 60 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Cute
Gothic 50 or more
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4 requirementsAlso asks for Glamour · Eveningwear
Gothic 50 or more
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10 requirementsAlso asks for Cute · Elegant · Risqué · Flowers · Romantic · Professional · Uncomfortable
Gothic 50 or more
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4 requirementsAlso asks for Risqué
Gothic 50 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Risqué
Gothic 40 or more
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6 requirementsAlso asks for Risqué · Glamour · Elaborate
Gothic 40 or more
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4 requirementsAlso asks for Professional
Gothic 40 or more
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4 requirementsAlso asks for Formal
Gothic 40 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Romantic · Cute
Gothic 40 or more
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5 requirementsAlso asks for Risqué · Glamour
Gothic 40 or more
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6 requirementsAlso asks for Glamour · Elegant · Eveningwear
Gothic 40 or more
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4 requirementsAlso asks for Cute · Cool
Gothic 40 or more
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4 requirementsAlso asks for Romantic
Gothic 40 or more
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6 requirementsAlso asks for Romantic · Risqué · Cute · Playful
Gothic 35 or more
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6 requirementsAlso asks for Elaborate · Risqué · Glamour
Gothic 30 or more
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Gothic scores the briefs ask for
How many briefs state each score, so a target can be read against what the game actually demands.
- 30 or more1 brief
- 35 or more1 brief
- 40 or more9 briefs
- 50 or more4 briefs
- 60 or more3 briefs
- 75 or more2 briefs
- 80 or more1 brief
Pick a source for Gothic
Sort the strongest patterns, fabrics and decorations that carry Gothic 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.
32 of 32 sources
Every source that carries Gothic is here, sorted by how hard it pushes. A piece that never appears can still belong in a Gothic dress — it just does not move the style on its own.
What affects Gothic?
Three things carry a style, and they do not carry it the same way.
Patterns
Some patterns add Gothic 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 Gothic 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 explanationWorking toward Gothic?
This page says what carries the style. These four do the building, the measuring, the repairing and the aiming.
- Build toward GothicLay out a whole dress and aim it at the score you need, before you cut into anything.Build toward Gothic
- Calculate my Gothic scoreRead the Gothic score a dress actually reaches, piece by piece.Calculate my Gothic score
- My dress is short on GothicFind the smallest change that closes a gap when a dress misses the score.My dress is short on Gothic
- Reach Gothic on purposeSet a floor or a ceiling for Gothic and get the patterns, fabrics and decorations that satisfy it.Reach Gothic on purpose
Styles that share a brief with Gothic
The styles the same briefs also score, most shared first.
Gothic questions
How do I get Gothic in Dressmaker?
65 patterns, 122 fabrics and 53 decorations carry Gothic. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.
Which patterns give Gothic?
65 patterns carry Gothic. The strongest is Angel's Trumpet Sleeve, which counts 25 of it.
Which fabrics carry Gothic?
122 fabrics carry Gothic. Black Wool Pinstripes is the strongest, at 80.
Which decorations carry Gothic?
Black Silk Square Bow is the strongest of the 53 decorations carrying Gothic, at 5.
How do I reach Gothic 40?
Set the goal to 40 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 Gothic 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 Gothic?
Yes. 1 pieces count Gothic 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 Gothic 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 Gothic by different amounts in two different dresses.