Meet the ten clients
Knowing what each client wants helps you plan fabric purchases and avoid mistakes. Dressmaker has ten named clients whose commissions combine clothing requirements with stories unfolding around Twillford. This dressmaker characters guide helps you recognize those clients, interpret their requests, and find the connections that open later jobs.
You run Twillford's only tailor shop. Across the ten clients, there are 87 character commissions: 77 story requests and ten gift commissions. The separate Peerless Dressmaker request is a personal quest outside those client storylines.
| Client | Request themes or connections | Associated story achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Rose | A librarian whose practical work dresses eventually give way to bolder experiments. | A Rose By Any Other Name |
| Prudence | An aristocrat balancing social status, household duties, and care for her nieces. | Prudence and Prejudice |
| Priya | An artist with funeral, exhibition, and artistic retreat commissions. | Drawn to Hue |
| Marie | Picnic outfits, a romantic silk dress, and an unusual goat dispute. | G.O.A.T. |
| Edith | Glamorous appearances tied to her biography, stage career, and favorite author. | Swan Song |
| Fiona | Her Walking Billboard and Beloved Ox requests connect to Adora's later commissions. | Reap What You Sew |
| Alice | Gothic designs that also call for Cute, Romantic, and Playful scores. | Caw Evermore |
| Vivian | Her storyline connects with Alice's later requests. | Good Girl Gone Vlad |
| Dorothy | Eclectic styling appears in her eight-commission line. | Snitches Get Stitches |
| Adora | Event outfits emphasizing Romantic, Playful, and Formal requirements. | Go Off, Queen! |
These themes help you plan, but they are not fixed rules. Rose's Bold Tigress, for instance, swaps Professional styling for Glamour and Risqué.
How requests and Friendship work
Every commission is a checklist, not a fixed design recipe. You can choose your own pattern and arrangement as long as the finished dress satisfies every listed condition. Quality, style scores, fabric shares, colors, accessories, and trim can all appear in the same request.
Read each requirement according to what it measures:
- Minimums: Gothic ≥ 50 means 50 or higher.
- Maximums: Cute ≤ 20 means 20 or lower. More is not always better.
- Exclusions: Flowers ≤ 0 requires a final Flowers score of zero.
- Color choices: “White or Grey” permits those colors; it does not require both.
- Percentages and counts: Lace ≥ 40% measures fabric share, while Bow ≥ 3 requires at least three bows.
Keep similarly named requirements separate. Prudence's Floral Romance needs both Flowers ≥ 60 and at least three Flower accessories. Reaching the style score does not satisfy the accessory count; each condition needs its own check.
Completing commissions increases Friendship, which unlocks additional dress patterns at higher levels. An Excellent result can raise Friendship faster than a basic pass, so completing three requests does not necessarily mean reaching Friendship level three. Aim for strong results while checking that no maximum or restriction has been broken.
First clients: Rose and the funeral commissions
Rose is your first customer, and her initial workwear is a straightforward introduction to Professional scoring. Her later requests add warmth, material percentages, and tighter limits. In the tables below, Q means Quality; budgets are the listed commission amounts.
| Rose's request | Requirements | Budget |
|---|---|---|
| Librarian Workwear | Q ≥ 60; Professional ≥ 40 | 200 |
| Chilly Overtime | Q ≥ 70; Professional ≥ 50; Warm ≥ 50; Cute ≤ 20; Romantic ≤ 20 | 350 |
| Librarian Conference | Q ≥ 70; Professional ≥ 50; Formal ≥ 25; Daywear ≥ 30; Linen ≥ 25%; Wool ≥ 25% | 200 |
| Bold Tigress | Q ≥ 80; Glamour ≥ 50; Risqué ≥ 40; Elegant ≥ 40; Sequin ≥ 10%; orange and black only | 500 |
| Both of Us? | Q ≥ 80; Cool ≥ 50; cotton only | 2,500 |
| Rodent Relations | Q ≥ 70; Cute ≥ 50; Playful ≥ 50; Sequin ≥ 10%; Pink ≥ 30% | 300 |
| Tomb Raider | Q ≥ 70; Workwear ≥ 50; Simple ≥ 40; Elaborate ≤ 5; no white | 300 |
Rose's measurements: bust 86.2, waist 68.8, and hips 95.8. Keep these three values separate when preparing her dresses.
Prudence Mortimer, Priya, and Marie Laroche all request funeral outfits, but their briefs pull in different directions. Prudence wants attention and rejects black; Priya wants an intimidating, entirely black look; Marie asks for a restrained dress with at least half black fabric. Reusing one design unchanged will not satisfy all three.
| Client and request | Requirements | Budget |
|---|---|---|
| Prudence — Flamboyant Funeral | Q ≥ 75; Elegant ≥ 65; Glamour ≥ 40; no black | 300 |
| Priya — Fierce Funeral | Q ≥ 75; Formal ≥ 50; Gothic ≥ 40; black only | 300 |
| Marie — Respectful Funeral | Q ≥ 75; Formal ≥ 50; Elegant ≥ 40; Simple ≥ 40; Black ≥ 50% | 300 |
Watch Prudence's later Not Haughty request especially carefully: its Quality requirement is a maximum of 70. It also needs Simple ≥ 40, Workwear ≥ 40, and Uncomfortable ≥ 25. Treating every Quality figure as a minimum would send you toward the wrong result.
Later clients, gifts, and connected requests
Alice and Adora show how demanding later commissions can become. Alice's designs frequently combine Gothic with softer or more playful styles. Adora's requests range from formal ceremony clothing to practical cotton outfits. Neither client can be handled with one reliable style score alone.
The following examples highlight the differences between their event outfits and gift commissions.
| Client and request | Requirements | Budget |
|---|---|---|
| Adora — Crowning Glory | Q ≥ 95; Elaborate ≥ 80; Formal ≥ 80; Yellow ≥ 25%; White ≥ 25%; Trim ≥ 10 cm; Lace Trim ≥ 10 cm | 5,000 |
| Adora — A gift for Adora | Q ≥ 80; Cute ≥ 50; Romantic ≥ 50; Purple ≥ 50%; Silk ≥ 50%; Bow ≥ 1 | 1,000 |
| Alice — Raven Rising | Q ≥ 80; Gothic ≥ 40; Glamour ≥ 50; Elegant ≥ 50; Eveningwear ≥ 50; black, blue, or green only | 750 |
| Alice — A gift for Alice | Q ≥ 80; Gothic ≥ 50; Cute ≥ 50; Lace ≥ 40%; White ≥ 40% | 1,000 |
Crowning Glory lists both overall Trim and Lace Trim minimums, so check both totals. For Raven Rising, black, blue, and green are permitted colors; the brief does not demand all three. Both gift commissions also have fabric and color percentages that a matching visual theme cannot replace.
Edith's accessory requirements deserve the same attention. Her Biographer's Interview needs at least one Brooch, and Phoenix Costume requires four Feathers. Meeting their Quality and style thresholds alone will not finish either brief.
If a client's next request is missing, progress through other available storylines. Some jobs explicitly depend on another commission, making these connections useful checkpoints:
| Client | Request unlocked | Prerequisite |
|---|---|---|
| Rose | Rodent Relations and Tomb Raider | Complete Prudence's Undercover Servant; the additional requests become available through Berty. |
| Adora | Proper Lady | Complete Fiona's Walking Billboard. |
| Adora | Cheerful Frog | Complete Fiona's Beloved Ox. |
| Alice | Spirit of Compromise | Complete Dark Emissary. |
| Alice | Kroq's Wish | Complete Spring Fete. |
| Alice | Selafie's Wish | Complete Goat Mediation. |
Alice's unlocked requests also ask for very different designs. Spirit of Compromise needs at least 35 each in Gothic, Romantic, Risqué, Cute, and Playful. Selafie's Wish instead emphasizes Cute ≥ 60, Playful ≥ 50, and Romantic ≥ 50, with Pink ≥ 25%, White ≥ 25%, and at least three bows. Both require Quality ≥ 80.
For Adora, Proper Lady calls for Quality ≥ 80 and at least 50 each in Formal, Elegant, and Daywear. Cheerful Frog keeps the Quality threshold but asks for Playful ≥ 50, Daywear ≥ 50, and Green ≥ 60%. Completing Fiona's prerequisites opens these jobs; each still needs its own design.
FAQ
How many dressmaker characters take commissions?
There are ten named clients: Rose, Prudence, Priya, Marie, Edith, Fiona, Alice, Vivian, Dorothy, and Adora. Their combined 87 commissions include ten gifts, one for each client. The player's Peerless Dressmaker request is counted separately.
Does every client have a gift commission?
Yes. Each of the ten clients has one gift commission with its own clothing requirements. Alice's combines Gothic and Cute with minimum lace and white percentages. Adora's combines Cute and Romantic with minimum purple and silk percentages, plus a bow.
Why has a client's storyline stopped progressing?
Check commissions from other clients. Rose's two additional jobs follow Prudence's Undercover Servant, while Adora's Proper Lady and Cheerful Frog depend on Fiona's requests. Because these stories connect, working through available commissions across the cast can open requests that are missing from a single client's line.
