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Friendship stars, gifts and the patterns they unlock

Each client has a row of five stars in your Sketchbook. Delivered commissions and gifts fill them, and as a friendship grows the game can hand you new dress patterns. No romance option has turned up with any of the ten clients.

Dressmaker | New Release | First Look | Part 1Cem Black · 7:56:19 · from 6:53:54Starts on the screen where gifting unlocks.

The Friendships page

The Sketchbook opens on a page headed Friendships: one row of five stars for each client you have met, and ??? for anyone still to come. Open a client and her page lists her measurements and a Personal style with five slots that fill in as you go. After two dresses for Rose, her page shows two stars and two styles, Professional and Simple, with three slots still hidden.

What fills a star

  • Deliver a story commission

    One whole star for every card the dress passes, a quarter of a star for one it fails. You are paid the full budget either way.

  • Gift a finished dress

    A full star if the dress meets her hidden gift wishes or its Quality, counted without her measurements, is 81 or more. A quarter of a star if not. Gifts pay no gold. What each client wants is on gifts.

  • Make an extra order Berty brings

    Dorothy pitches extra dresses for your favourite customers as the way to deepen those friendships.

When Gift Dress appears

Not at the start. It turns up straight after Prudence’s second dress, Undercover Servant, with a notice: “You may now also gift dresses to the clients you've met.” The same notice points you to the Sketchbook for each client’s preferences and measurements. From then on, a finished dress offers four choices: Complete Commission, Keep working, Sell, and Gift Dress.

What a gift looks like

  1. Gift Dress on a finished dress opens Select Gift Recipient, a list of every client you have met.
  2. The client answers. Dorothy, handed a dress that failed a card, says “I might not wear this dress every day, but it's charming nonetheless.”
  3. Sometimes, new patterns. The game says “Your friendship has inspired new dress patterns!” and offers Add to Sketchbook.
Character art of three women: one in a magenta coat and feathered hat, one with red curls and a basket of greens, one in a blue turban and fur stole.
Three of the Twillford clients.

Any finished dress can go as a gift, including one that failed its card, and a gift can still raise that client’s friendship. A dress whose Quality without measurements (40% grain, 60% sewing, rounded) is 81 or more is a full star even if it misses her tastes. The exception is a dress for a commission that is still open: give that away and the story can stall. If that has already happened, commission disappeared has the fixes. Cheap dresses to gift, and what selling pays, are on off the rack, selling and gifts.

Berty’s orders and visiting cards

Once Dorothy’s pigeon adopts you, after her first dress, he brings extra orders from clients. They are optional, and Dorothy is clear that “these extra tasks wouldn't expire, although I imagine customers could occasionally become temporarily unavailable for personal reasons.” He also carries a visiting card, and the game asks you to Select visiting card recipient from two clients: the one you pick comes to the shop next. So you choose which client comes next. Who the pigeons are is on Twillford, and the mail commissions on Dorothy’s page.

Quick answers

  • Is every gift a full star? No. A gift is a full star when it meets every line of that client’s hidden gift card, or when its Quality without her measurements (40% grain, 60% sewing, rounded) is 81 or more. Anything else adds a quarter of a star. Each client’s gift card is on gifts.
  • Which patterns does a star unlock? A new star adds that client’s patterns for that star to your Sketchbook, but not every star has any: only Priya and Prudence have patterns on star five. The list for every client is on pattern unlocks.
  • How many stars can a client have? The row has five places.
  • Can it turn into romance? Not so far: no romance option has turned up. More on the FAQ.