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Professional

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

Buttoned up and put together, cut for work rather than for play.

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
8 briefs
Contributors in the catalogue
70 patterns · 76 fabrics · 50 accessories
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Build toward a Professional dress

How to raise Professional

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 Professional 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 Professional score do you need?

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

Patterns that add Professional

The six strongest cuts for Professional, 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 70

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

  • Evie Skirt from Dressmaker
    Evie SkirtSkirt

    Professional +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Ruched Bodice from Dressmaker
    Ruched BodiceBodice

    Professional +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Rose · relationship 4

  • Straight Long Skirt from Dressmaker
    Straight Long SkirtSkirt

    Professional +25

    1 variantHigh fabric use

    Available from the start

  • Cinched Blouse from Dressmaker
    Cinched BlouseBodice

    Professional +20

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Elevated Ruffled Square Bodice from Dressmaker
    Elevated Ruffled Square BodiceBodice

    Professional +20

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Pencil Skirt from Dressmaker
    Pencil SkirtSkirt

    Professional +20

    1 variantMedium fabric use

    Available from the start

See all 70 Professional patterns

Fabrics that contribute to Professional

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

6 of 76

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

See all 76 Professional fabrics

Accessories that help raise Professional

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

6 of 50

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

See all 50 Professional accessories

What pulls Professional down

Some pieces carry Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional

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

Professional scores the briefs ask for

How many briefs state each score, so a target can be read against what the game actually demands.

  • 40 or more1 brief
  • 50 or more5 briefs
  • 60 or more1 brief
  • 75 or more1 brief
Browse every brief that asks for Professional

Pick a source for Professional

Sort the strongest patterns, fabrics and decorations that carry Professional 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 Professional is here, sorted by how hard it pushes. A piece that never appears can still belong in a Professional dress — it just does not move the style on its own.

What affects Professional?

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

  • Patterns

    Some patterns add Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional?

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 Professional

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

All 22 styles

Professional questions

  • How do I get Professional in Dressmaker?

    70 patterns, 76 fabrics and 50 decorations carry Professional. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.

  • Which patterns give Professional?

    70 patterns carry Professional. The strongest is Evie Skirt, which counts 25 of it.

  • Which fabrics carry Professional?

    76 fabrics carry Professional. Black Wool Pinstripes is the strongest, at 50.

  • Which decorations carry Professional?

    Antique Brass Embossed Button is the strongest of the 50 decorations carrying Professional, at 5.

  • How do I reach Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional?

    Yes. 6 pieces count Professional below zero, and Artemis Gradient Sequins does it hardest at -25. On a dress they take those points away rather than adding them.

  • Does a fabric always give the same Professional 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 Professional by different amounts in two different dresses.