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Risqué

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

Revealing and daring — skin, straps and very little modesty.

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
16 briefs
Contributors in the catalogue
40 patterns · 86 fabrics · 27 accessories
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Risqué from Dressmaker
Build toward a Risqué dress

How to raise Risqué

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 Risqué 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 Risqué score do you need?

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

Patterns that add Risqué

The six strongest cuts for Risqué, 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 40

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

  • Black Widow Bodice from Dressmaker
    Black Widow BodiceBodice

    Risqué +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Gatsby Bodice from Dressmaker
    Gatsby BodiceBodice

    Risqué +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Edith · relationship 2

  • Twilight Hour Bodice from Dressmaker
    Twilight Hour BodiceBodice

    Risqué +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Vivian · relationship 1

  • Widow Bodice from Dressmaker
    Widow BodiceBodice

    Risqué +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Widow Skirt from Dressmaker
    Widow SkirtSkirt

    Risqué +25

    1 variantLow fabric use

    Unlock route not documented

  • Cinched Keyhole Blouse from Dressmaker
    Cinched Keyhole BlouseBodice

    Risqué +25

    1 variantMedium fabric use

    Available from the start

See all 40 Risqué patterns

Fabrics that contribute to Risqué

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

6 of 86

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

See all 86 Risqué fabrics

Accessories that help raise Risqué

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

6 of 27

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

See all 27 Risqué accessories

What pulls Risqué down

Some pieces carry Risqué 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 Risqué 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.

  • Pattern

    Cinched Keyhole Blouse from Dressmaker
    Cinched Keyhole BlouseBodice

    Risqué +25

    1 variantMedium fabric use

    Available from the start

  • Fabric

    Bordeaux Silk from Dressmaker
    Bordeaux SilkSilk

    Risqué +50

    Cost 50

    Available from the start

  • Accessory

    Black Lace from Dressmaker
    Black LaceLace Trim · Trim & edge

    Risqué +3

    Cost 3

    Available from the start

Briefs that ask for Risqué

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

Risqué scores the briefs ask for

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

  • 20 or more2 briefs
  • 30 or more1 brief
  • 35 or more1 brief
  • 40 or more2 briefs
  • 50 or more6 briefs
  • 60 or more2 briefs
  • 80 or more1 brief
  • 85 or more1 brief
Browse every brief that asks for Risqué

Pick a source for Risqué

Sort the strongest patterns, fabrics and decorations that carry Risqué 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.

33 of 33 sources

Every source that carries Risqué is here, sorted by how hard it pushes. A piece that never appears can still belong in a Risqué dress — it just does not move the style on its own.

What affects Risqué?

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

  • Patterns

    Some patterns add Risqué 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 Risqué 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 Risqué?

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 Risqué

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

All 22 styles

Risqué questions

  • How do I get Risqué in Dressmaker?

    40 patterns, 86 fabrics and 27 decorations carry Risqué. Any of them counts toward it, and the finished score belongs to the dress rather than to one piece.

  • Which patterns give Risqué?

    40 patterns carry Risqué. The strongest is Black Widow Bodice, which counts 25 of it.

  • Which fabrics carry Risqué?

    86 fabrics carry Risqué. Snow Petal Lace is the strongest, at 50.

  • Which decorations carry Risqué?

    Bordeaux Red Looping Lace is the strongest of the 27 decorations carrying Risqué, at 3.

  • How do I reach Risqué 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 Risqué 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 Risqué?

    Yes. 6 pieces count Risqué below zero, and Burlap does it hardest at -10. On a dress they take those points away rather than adding them.

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