Dressmaker money: separate dress sales from commissions

Money: separate dress sales from commissions

Before buying another expensive material, check what this project is costing and how you intend to finish it. A dress sale, commission payment and gift are different outcomes; do not count them as interchangeable income.

Read the completion choices first

Image: official Cozy Lives / Free Lives media.

The official description allows your own designs to be displayed and sold off the rack. The illustrated completion screen shows commission, continuation and sale choices. Its sale value belongs to that example, not a repeatable earnings formula.

Keep a small project ledger

Entry	Write down
Starting funds	Coins before shopping
Planned bill	Fabric and accessory estimate
Correction reserve	Funds left for recutting
Result	Sale proceeds or commission payment

Separate fabric from accessories. For a commission, cover the required conditions before spending on optional decoration. For an off-the-rack project, compare the actual sale result with what you put into it. Total inventory value is not this garment’s cost.

Give the next project one purpose

Community players discuss sales as a way to keep working, but we do not have verified profit-per-minute figures. A useful next experiment is a manageable design with fewer last-minute changes and a recorded result. Practice projects and high-cost achievement projects can be planned separately, so one attempt does not carry every goal.

Where to go next

• Dressmaker budget fabrics: buy what the project needs
• Dressmaker commission rejected? Check targets and limits
• Dressmaker customers: preferences, measurements and briefs

Sources and version

Reviewed on 9 October 2026. Player observations are identified in the guide; check controls against your installed version.

• Image source: Cozy Lives / Free Lives Steam media
• Developer log — Belated May Tea
• chaseit — player completionist guide