Dressmaker Style Tag
Workwear
Find patterns, fabrics and accessories that contribute to Workwear, then work toward the score you need.
Sturdy and practical, cut for doing a job in.
How this site reads the style. The game ships no description for any of them.
What is behind this style
- Strong sources
- Patterns · Fabrics
- Asked for by
- 5 briefs
- Contributors in the catalogue
- 37 patterns · 96 fabrics · no accessory
How to raise Workwear
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 Workwear 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 Workwear score do you need?
The quick values are the scores this build's briefs actually state for Workwear.
Patterns that add Workwear
The six strongest cuts for Workwear, 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 37
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
Fabrics that contribute to Workwear
The six strongest fabrics for Workwear, in three orders. Two fabrics on the same weight are ordered by price.
6 of 96
Ordered by the weight the game gives it, strongest first.
Accessories that help raise Workwear
The six strongest decorations for Workwear, in three orders. Two on the same weight are ordered by price.
No accessory in this build declares Workwear. Patterns and fabrics are what move it.
What pulls Workwear down
Some pieces carry Workwear as a negative weight, so a dress built around them loses points instead of gaining them. These are the strongest of them.
- Artemis Gradient SequinsFabricWorkwear -25
- Azura SequinsFabricWorkwear -25
- Black SequinsFabricWorkwear -25
- Chameleon SequinsFabricWorkwear -25
- Desert Dawn Gradient SequinsFabricWorkwear -25
- Emerald SequinsFabricWorkwear -25
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 Workwear 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
Available from the start
What a save already has on its first day.
Pattern
Fabric
Briefs that ask for Workwear
Every published brief whose requirements state a Workwear score, the hardest first.
6 requirementsAlso asks for Cute · Patterned
Workwear 50 or more
Try it in the solver
4 requirementsAlso asks for Warm · Simple
Workwear 50 or more
Try it in the solver
5 requirementsAlso asks for Simple · Elaborate
Workwear 50 or more
Try it in the solver
4 requirementsAlso asks for Simple · Uncomfortable
Workwear 40 or more
Try it in the solver
5 requirementsAlso asks for Cute · Playful
Workwear 40 or more
Try it in the solver
Pick a source for Workwear
Sort the strongest patterns, fabrics and decorations that carry Workwear 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.
22 of 22 sources
Workwear +50
Cost 30 · Available from the start
You can use this
Elevated Scoop Ruffle BodicePatternWorkwear +10
Medium fabric use · Available from the start
You can use this
Princess Scoop BodicePatternWorkwear +10
Medium fabric use · Available from the start
You can use this
Every source that carries Workwear is here, sorted by how hard it pushes. A piece that never appears can still belong in a Workwear dress — it just does not move the style on its own.
What affects Workwear?
Three things carry a style, and they do not carry it the same way.
Patterns
Some patterns add Workwear 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 Workwear 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 Workwear?
This page says what carries the style. These four do the building, the measuring, the repairing and the aiming.
- Build toward WorkwearLay out a whole dress and aim it at the score you need, before you cut into anything.Build toward Workwear
- Calculate my Workwear scoreRead the Workwear score a dress actually reaches, piece by piece.Calculate my Workwear score
- My dress is short on WorkwearFind the smallest change that closes a gap when a dress misses the score.My dress is short on Workwear
- Reach Workwear on purposeSet a floor or a ceiling for Workwear and get the patterns, fabrics and decorations that satisfy it.Reach Workwear on purpose
Styles that share a brief with Workwear
The styles the same briefs also score, most shared first.
Workwear questions
How do I get Workwear in Dressmaker?
37 patterns, 96 fabrics and 0 decorations carry Workwear. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.
Which patterns give Workwear?
37 patterns carry Workwear. The strongest is Flare Skirt, which counts 15 of it.
Which fabrics carry Workwear?
96 fabrics carry Workwear. Salmon Cotton is the strongest, at 52.
How do I reach Workwear 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 Workwear 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 Workwear?
Yes. 6 pieces count Workwear 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 Workwear 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 Workwear by different amounts in two different dresses.