Planning your first commission

Use the customer’s preferences and event as the brief for your first commissioned dress.

Start here

A commission gives your design a customer and an occasion. Before choosing fabric, turn the stated preferences into a short personal checklist. Revisit that checklist when reviewing colours, panels, and decoration. The official page says that deliveries earn reputation and coins, but does not provide a payout formula. This guide therefore focuses on organising your creative decisions instead of promising an optimal reward route.

Review the whole design

The official description includes previewing a dress on a mannequin. Use that view to compare the whole garment with your original idea, rather than judging only one small detail. As an editorial habit, pause when a major choice changes the appearance and decide whether the design still feels coherent. The page does not describe a universal pass condition, so keep this review focused on your intended look and the customer’s stated preferences.

Choose your next experiment

Once you understand this stage, try changing one creative decision in a later dress and compare the result. You might explore a different fabric or a different decorative focus. Keeping the question small makes it easier to explain what you like about the result. This is a learning suggestion, not a confirmed replay or duplication feature. For the wider sequence, return to the beginner guide and connect this stage with planning, cutting, sewing, and delivery.

Continue reading: A beginner’s guide to Dressmaker.

Source: Official Dressmaker Steam page.