Dressmaker Style Tag
Shimmering
Find patterns, fabrics and accessories that contribute to Shimmering, then work toward the score you need.
Shine above all: satin, sequins and surfaces that catch the light.
How this site reads the style. The game ships no description for any of them.
What is behind this style
- Strong sources
- Fabrics · Accessories
- Asked for by
- no brief in this build
- Contributors in the catalogue
- no pattern · 37 fabrics · 36 accessories
How to raise Shimmering
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 Shimmering 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 Shimmering score do you need?
No brief in this build states a Shimmering score, so there is no value to suggest. Enter a target of your own if you want one.
Patterns that add Shimmering
The six strongest cuts for Shimmering, by the weight the game gives the pattern itself. Two patterns on the same weight are ordered by how much cloth they take.
No pattern in this build declares Shimmering. Fabrics and accessories are what move it, and the finder would answer the same way.
Fabrics that contribute to Shimmering
The six strongest fabrics for Shimmering, in three orders. Two fabrics on the same weight are ordered by price.
6 of 37
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
Accessories that help raise Shimmering
The six strongest decorations for Shimmering, in three orders. Two on the same weight are ordered by price.
6 of 36
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
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 Shimmering 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.
Fabric
Accessory
Available from the start
What a save already has on its first day.
Fabric
Accessory
Briefs that ask for Shimmering
Every published brief whose requirements state a Shimmering score, the hardest first.
No brief in this build asks for Shimmering. The style is still carried by the catalogue, and the finders sort by its weight.
Browse every brief that asks for ShimmeringPick a source for Shimmering
Sort the strongest patterns, fabrics and decorations that carry Shimmering 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.
21 of 21 sources
Shimmering +25
Cost 80 · Available from the start
You can use this
Every source that carries Shimmering is here, sorted by how hard it pushes. A piece that never appears can still belong in a Shimmering dress — it just does not move the style on its own.
What affects Shimmering?
Three things carry a style, and they do not carry it the same way.
Patterns
Some patterns add Shimmering 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 Shimmering 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 Shimmering?
This page says what carries the style. These four do the building, the measuring, the repairing and the aiming.
- Build toward ShimmeringLay out a whole dress and aim it at the score you need, before you cut into anything.Build toward Shimmering
- Calculate my Shimmering scoreRead the Shimmering score a dress actually reaches, piece by piece.Calculate my Shimmering score
- My dress is short on ShimmeringFind the smallest change that closes a gap when a dress misses the score.My dress is short on Shimmering
- Reach Shimmering on purposeSet a floor or a ceiling for Shimmering and get the patterns, fabrics and decorations that satisfy it.Reach Shimmering on purpose
Styles that share a brief with Shimmering
Other styles the game names, A to Z.
Shimmering questions
How do I get Shimmering in Dressmaker?
0 patterns, 37 fabrics and 36 decorations carry Shimmering. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.
Which fabrics carry Shimmering?
37 fabrics carry Shimmering. Artemis Gradient Sequins is the strongest, at 50.
Which decorations carry Shimmering?
Chessboard Embellished Trim is the strongest of the 36 decorations carrying Shimmering, at 5.
How do I reach a Shimmering target?
No commission asks for a Shimmering score, so the game itself is not asking for a number. Aim at whatever your dress needs and measure it in the style calculator.
Why did a second decoration give less Shimmering 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.
Does a fabric always give the same Shimmering 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 Shimmering by different amounts in two different dresses.