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Getting started in Dressmaker

A practical first-commission checklist: read the brief, plan the dress, choose fabric, cut, sew and hand it over.

Cutting, grain & missing pieces

Plan pattern placement, preserve print direction and troubleshoot cut pieces that do not appear on the mannequin.

Sewing & dress quality

Use a calm sewing workflow, inspect grain before chasing perfect quality, and separate style targets from construction problems.

Lace, trims & decoration

Understand lace placement direction, removal tips and the official Build 403 fix for trim tags.

Can’t submit a commission?

Troubleshoot a missing submission button in Dressmaker: incomplete pieces, colour categories, a safe reload and useful bug reports.

Client measurements & mannequin checks

Keep the correct client measurements with the current commission and handle a missing measurement set without guessing sizes.

Commission budget & fabric spending

Track fabric and accessory spending against your Dressmaker commission budget with a simple local planning tool.

Free creation & future game modes

What Dressmaker offers outside customer commissions, plus the difference between present creative freedom and announced future modes.

Build 403 patch notes & future plans

Read the first official Dressmaker patch changes, including lace tags, payments, the shop bell and cutting tutorial fixes.

Librarian Workwear

Professional work clothing. Professional. Start with the workwear silhouette, then read the live style bars before adding decoration.

Flamboyant Funeral

Avoid black. Elegant, Glamour. Separate the colour restriction from the style targets. Funeral requests do not all use the same palette.

Vegetable Empire

Three colours. Cute, Playful, Workwear. Check the in-game colour filters when three visible shades register as only two colours.

Chilly Overtime

Cute and Romantic have upper limits. Professional, Warm. Treat upper limits as carefully as minimums. Extra decoration can make a balanced design miss its brief.

Nocturnal Glamour

Velvet. Gothic, Risque, Glamour. Keep the required material in view when adjusting the style of individual panels.

Sporting Chance

At least 60% cotton. Playful, Simple. Use the material percentage displayed by the game; counting cotton panels is not a percentage calculation.

Fabrics & patterns

Cotton, linen, wool, silk, velvet and pattern planning.

Achievement tracker

All 32 Steam achievements and a personal completion checklist.

Dress planner

Personal notes, budget and purchase costs.