Cheapest dress that still earns
About 40% less spent on materials.
- Material cost
- 757
- Sale price
- 1,060
- Profit
- +303
Off-the-rack profit planner
Dressmaker Off-the-Rack Profit Planner
Say how much Prestige you have, how well you sew and what you are willing to spend. The planner prices the dresses you can make and answers with the build that earns the most Coin for the materials it costs.
Material cost and sale price from the game's own rules25482629
What are you trying to earn?
Four answers are enough: what you want, your Prestige, the Quality you can sew and your labour figure.
Prestige raises what every dress sells for.
The Quality you expect to sew at the machine.
The labour value this dress carries. It is part of the price, not a Coin you pay.
The most you want to spend. The budget goal searches under this ceiling.
Not sure what Quality you can reach?
Budget & design restrictions
Leave these alone to search everything a player can normally get.
Your plan
Highest-profit build found
The dress that earned the most Coin in this search, priced at your own numbers.
Sale price
1,770
Material cost
1,264
Profit
+506
29% of the sale price
Priced at
- Expected Quality
- 90
- Prestige
- 0
- Labour figure
- 0
13,362 dresses priced, 10 kept.
The search samples the largest and smallest cuts rather than every combination, so a different dress may earn as much.
The dress to make at Quality 90
Every part links to the page that owns it, so the pattern and the cloth can be checked before anything is cut.
90 panels in total
Yoked Jacket BodiceCut 1 · 24 panelsBodiceFabric Turquoise Velvet
Ruffle SkirtCut 1 · 48 panelsSkirtFabric Turquoise Velvet
Bell SleeveCut 1 · 2 panelsSleeveFabric Turquoise Velvet
Viper CollarCut 1 · 16 panelsCollarFabric Turquoise Velvet
Accessories
Cost and profit, line by line
Where the money goes: the bill first, the price underneath it.
- Fabric
- 1,024
- Accessories
- 240
- Materials
- 1,264
- Sale price
- 1,770
- Profit
- +506
Labour is part of what the dress sells for, so it is never taken off the profit.
If your Quality changes
The same dress, sewn more or less carefully.
| If your Quality changes | Sale price | Profit |
|---|---|---|
| Quality 80 | 1,643 | +379 |
| Quality 90 | 1,770 | +506 |
| Quality 100 | 1,896 | +632 |
If your Prestige changes
The same dress, if your Prestige moves.
| If your Prestige changes | Sale price | Profit |
|---|---|---|
| Prestige 0 | 1,770 | +506 |
| Prestige 10 | 1,947 | +683 |
Other profitable builds
Three other dresses worth a look, each answering a different worry.
Nothing pinned on
The best dress that wears cloth and nothing else.
- Material cost
- 1,024
- Sale price
- 1,434
- Profit
- +410
Starting patterns only
A dress a fresh save can already cut.
- Material cost
- 625
- Sale price
- 875
- Profit
- +250
Compare the builds
| Build 1 | Build 2 | Build 3 | Build 4 | Build 5 | Build 6 | Build 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build | This answer | Cheapest dress that still earns | Nothing pinned on | Starting patterns only | Runner-up 2 | Runner-up 3 | Runner-up 4 |
| Material cost | 1,264 | 757 | 1,024 | 625 | 1,264 | 1,184 | 1,184 |
| Sale price | 1,770 | 1,060 | 1,434 | 875 | 1,770 | 1,658 | 1,658 |
| Profit | +506 | +303 | +410 | +250 | +506 | +474 | +474 |
| Accessories | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
What to do with this build
Every door below carries the dress with it, so nothing has to be typed twice.
- Edit this buildOpen the dress that was found and change a cloth, a cut or a trim.Open the dress
- Price the materialsThe same dress priced as cloth and accessories only, part by part.Check the material cost
- Check the sale priceThe same dress on the sale price sheet, with your Quality, Prestige and labour already filled in.Open the sale price
- Raise the QualityWork out the Quality score you can really reach at the machine, then come back and plan again.Score your Quality
How profit is calculated
One subtraction decides everything below: what the dress sells for, less what the materials cost.
- 1Price minus materialsProfit is the sale price minus the material bill. Labour is part of what the dress sells for, not a Coin handed over, so it is never subtracted.
- 2Quality and Prestige move the answerThe Quality you sew at multiplies the whole dress, then Prestige multiplies the result again. A dress that wins at Quality 100 can lose money at Quality 75.
- 3The search is a sample, not a sweepThe planner prices the largest and smallest cuts of every part, the cheapest and dearest cloth you can afford, and a few decorations on the best of them, then says how many dresses it priced.
The spending side
What the cloth costs
Cloth is the only Coin a dress really costs. Buying it takes money out of the purse before anything is cut, and a dress that goes wrong leaves that bill behind.
When a dress is already in mind, the cost calculator prices exactly that one, part by part.
The earning side
How selling dresses works
Off-the-rack means making a dress with no brief behind it and putting it in the shop window, so the money comes in on your own schedule.
What sells and how fast is the part no calculator can tell you, and the guide covers what the shop window rewards.
Questions
Profit planning questions
What is the most profitable dress in Dressmaker?
There is no single best dress: it depends on your Prestige, the Quality you can sew and the cloth you can afford. At low Prestige and Quality a cheap dress usually wins, because every Coin spent on materials has to come back through both bonuses. The planner prices the dresses you can actually make and shows the one that came out ahead.
Is a more expensive dress always more profitable?
Only while the bonuses are worth it. The sale price multiplies a material bill by the Quality bonus and then by the Prestige bonus, so a dearer cloth earns more than it costs only when the two together beat 1. Raise the expected Quality and watch the profit move before any money is spent.
Why does the planner ask for a labour figure?
Yes, and it is worth getting right. The game adds a labour value to the materials before the bonuses apply and does not publish the rate, so the planner asks for one figure and prices every dress with it. The same figure is printed under the result, and it is never subtracted from the profit.
Why not say the most profitable dress?
Because it does not price every combination. It samples the largest and smallest cuts of each part, the cheapest and dearest cloth within your budget, and a few decorations on the best of them — far too many dresses to list, but still a sample. So the result is the highest-profit build found, not a proven maximum.
Is this the money the game pays me?
It is the same chain the sale price sheet replays: materials plus labour, multiplied by Quality and then by Prestige. That is what the dress pays when it sells at the shop window, so the profit shown is the Coin left over after the materials were bought.
Keep going
Where to go next
The two guides own the money system; the sheets beside them price one dress, and the catalogues show what it is made from.
About these numbers
Fabric and accessory prices come from the game's own shop figures, and the sale price is the same chain the sale price calculator replays.
The labour figure is yours: the game adds a labour value to every dress without publishing the rate, so all the dresses below were priced with the number you gave.
A patch that moves a cloth price, a Prestige gate or a bonus changes every figure here.
Checked against build 25482629.