Dressmaker Repair Bench
Dress Fixer
Something is still short and you would rather not start over. The fixer measures the dress you already have against the brief, says exactly which requirement is failing and by how much, and searches for the smallest change that closes it — so most of your dress survives the repair.
426 requirements · 178 patterns · 352 fabrics · 331 decorations available to the searchGame build 25482629
Fixing Fixing Marie's Wedding
What are you trying to fix?
The fixer repairs a dress you already made. It needs the dress and the brief before it can say anything worth reading, so start with one of these three.
Choose a commission
Pick the brief that failed and the fixer checks your dress against its own requirements — the same rules the commission page prints.
Load a saved dress
Builds you saved in the Dress Builder on this browser. Opening one brings the whole dress across, not a copy of it.
Build a dress first
There is nothing here to repair yet. Build a dress in the workbench and press "Fix this dress" there — the whole garment travels with you.
Open the Dress Builder
How it works
Diagnose first, then repair as little as possible
The fixer is not a recommender. It reads your dress, tells you which rule is failing, and only then looks for the least you could change.
- 1The gap comes firstBefore any suggestion, the brief is measured against the dress on your bench — the same requirement rows the commission page prints, checked on your garment rather than on someone else’s recipe.
- 2A search, not a rule of thumbSingle edits are tried first — a decoration, a cloth, a whole part — and then the most promising of those are combined in pairs and threes. Most real failures are two changes.
- 3Every candidate is proved exactlyA candidate is never accepted on a heuristic. It is scored by the same engine the workbench uses and compared against the same thresholds the game does, so a fix called passing really does pass.
- 4You keep the last wordKeep any piece and the search cannot touch it. If nothing is left that passes, the page says so and offers to widen the search rather than quietly ignoring your locks.
Questions
Dress Fixer questions
Why is my Dressmaker dress not passing the commission?
A commission checks a list of requirements — style scores, cloth composition, accessory counts and lengths, variety, and a quality figure. A dress fails when one of them is short. The fixer measures each one on your own dress and names the ones that are short before it suggests anything.
Can I fix my dress without changing everything?
That is what this page is for. It searches decorations first, then cloth, then whole parts, and stops at the first plan that clears the brief. Keep any piece you want and the search cannot touch it.
How is this different from the Commission Solver?
The solver ignores your dress and returns a complete legal recipe from the brief alone. The fixer starts from the dress you already like and changes as little of it as it can. When no small fix exists, the fixer says so and hands you to the solver.
What if the fix needs an item I have not unlocked?
Candidates behind an unlock are offered with the level they need printed on the card, or hidden entirely when you ask for only what you can get now. Hidden and development-only items never appear at all — they are not in the data this page reads.
Why can't the fixer close the quality requirement?
Quality is scored while the garment is cut, fitted and sewn, from your measurements, grain placement, fit and sewing accuracy. A pattern, a cloth and a trim do not decide it, so no change on this page could honestly promise it. The fixer explains that instead of inventing a number.
Does applying a fix change my saved build?
No. Applying a fix changes the dress on this bench, in place, and you can undo it. Your saved builds in the Dress Builder are untouched, and the address bar carries the repaired dress so you can keep or share it.
Keep going
Where a repair leads next
Three tools, three different jobs: build a dress from nothing, repair the one you have, or ask for a complete solution.
Notes
A Dressmaker commission not passing is almost always one requirement out of several, and it is usually one of five kinds: a style score such as Cute or Formal, the share of a colour or a fabric type in the cloth, the number or the length of accessories, the variety of what the dress uses, or the quality figure. The first four are decided by the pattern, the cloth and the trims you chose, which is why they can be diagnosed from a dress and repaired by changing it. Quality is decided while you cut and sew.
To fix a dress rather than rebuild it, start from what is short. Raising a style score usually costs one decoration or one cloth swap. A colour or fabric composition requirement usually needs a small panel reclothed rather than the whole skirt. An accessory count or a trim length is a decoration you add or extend. The fixer searches in that order — decorations, cloth, then whole parts — and keeps any piece you lock. When nothing inside those limits passes, the honest answer is a different dress, and the commission solver is where to get one.