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Sell price calculator: what a dress sells for, and what you make on it

The sale screen lists five lines: Materials, Labour, Quality Bonus, Prestige Bonus and Sell Price. The price is materials plus labour, times both bonuses. Fill in the dress below to see all five, the profit, and the prestige the sale adds.

Accessories

Materials400
Labour20
Quality Bonus (%)150
Prestige Bonus (%)110
Sell Price693
+293profit over the materials
+0.38prestige, with non-gift dresses finished before this sale

What one more accessory adds to this dress (trims: a 1 m strand)

AccessoryCostsProfit each
Diamond Trim Trim, rank 2170/m+47
Pearl Bead Trim Trim, rank 2660/m+41
Amethyst Brooch Brooch, rank 3140+28
Amethyst Flower Brooch Brooch, rank 1440+28
Jade & Silver Flower Brooch Brooch, rank 1340+28
Jade Flower Brooch Brooch, rank 340+28
Jade Swirl Brooch Brooch, rank 1940+28
Pearl Swirl Brooch Brooch, rank 340+28
A finished green gown on a mannequin with a Dress Complete! box offering Complete Commission, Keep working and Sell dress.
Sell dress is on the box that follows the photo; the five lines appear before you confirm.

What each line is

MaterialsThe fabric, valued piece by piece at its area plus 10% plus a small fixed allowance, at the fabric’s price; and the accessories at their price (trim by the metre). The total is rounded. Burlap costs nothing. The dress designer works out the fabric figure for a design.
LabourOne gold for every seam and one for every accessory, so a strand of trim counts once however long it is. Seams depend on the pattern; the sale screen shows your dress’s own total.
Quality Bonus50% plus the dress’s Quality, from 50% to 150%. This Quality leaves fit out. Work it out on the quality calculator.
Prestige Bonus100% plus your shop rank. How rank rises is on shop rank and prestige.
How to Make Money FAST in Dressmaker!Fleurs · 8:28 · from 1:15Starts where the player walks through the sale screen's lines and the burlap and off-the-rack routes.

When a sale makes money

Each accessory you add brings its price plus one gold of labour, times the two bonuses. Below Quality 50 at rank 0 the Quality bonus is under 100%, so dear accessories sell for less than they cost and decorating a poorly sewn dress loses money; at high Quality and a good rank the dearest accessories pay back most, which is the idea behind the brooch dress on making money. Every sale also adds prestige: Quality ÷ 100, times 6 ÷ (6 + the non-gift dresses you had finished before it).