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Dressmaker Style Tag

Playful

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

Whimsical and cheeky, where the joke is in the detail.

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
61 patterns · 102 fabrics · 132 accessories
Reach a Playful targetBuild toward Playful
Playful from Dressmaker
Build toward a Playful dress

How to raise Playful

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 Playful 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 Playful score do you need?

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

Patterns that add Playful

The six strongest cuts for Playful, 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 61

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

  • Bo Peep Skirt from Dressmaker
    Bo Peep SkirtSkirt

    Playful +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Petal Bow Skirt from Dressmaker
    Petal Bow SkirtSkirt

    Playful +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Sweet Maiden Bodice from Dressmaker
    Sweet Maiden BodiceBodice

    Playful +20

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Milkmaid Bodice from Dressmaker
    Milkmaid BodiceBodice

    Playful +20

    1 variantMedium fabric use

    Available from the start

  • Single Tiered Skirt from Dressmaker
    Single Tiered SkirtSkirt

    Playful +20

    1 variantHigh fabric use

    Available from the start

  • Frill Wrap Skirt from Dressmaker
    Frill Wrap SkirtSkirt

    Playful +15

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

See all 61 Playful patterns

Fabrics that contribute to Playful

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

6 of 102

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

See all 102 Playful fabrics

Accessories that help raise Playful

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

6 of 132

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

See all 132 Playful accessories

What pulls Playful down

Some pieces carry Playful 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 Playful 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.

  • Pattern

    Milkmaid Bodice from Dressmaker
    Milkmaid BodiceBodice

    Playful +20

    1 variantMedium fabric use

    Available from the start

  • Fabric

    Aqua Blue Cotton from Dressmaker
    Aqua Blue CottonCotton

    Playful +50

    Cost 10

    Available from the start

  • Accessory

    Beige Lace from Dressmaker
    Beige LaceLace Trim · Trim & edge

    Playful +5

    Cost 3

    Available from the start

Briefs that ask for Playful

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

Playful 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 more3 briefs
  • 30 or more1 brief
  • 35 or more2 briefs
  • 50 or more10 briefs
Browse every brief that asks for Playful

Pick a source for Playful

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

30 of 30 sources

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

What affects Playful?

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

  • Patterns

    Some patterns add Playful 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 Playful 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 Playful?

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 Playful

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

All 22 styles

Playful questions

  • How do I get Playful in Dressmaker?

    61 patterns, 102 fabrics and 132 decorations carry Playful. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.

  • Which patterns give Playful?

    61 patterns carry Playful. The strongest is Bo Peep Skirt, which counts 25 of it.

  • Which fabrics carry Playful?

    102 fabrics carry Playful. Aqua Blue Cotton is the strongest, at 50.

  • Which decorations carry Playful?

    Aqua Sunshine Lace is the strongest of the 132 decorations carrying Playful, at 5.

  • How do I reach Playful 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 Playful 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 Playful?

    Yes. 5 pieces count Playful 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 Playful 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 Playful by different amounts in two different dresses.