Press Export
on the photo screen to save your dress as a .dress file, and Import
on the same screen to open one. To change an imported dress, you need debug mode.
A .dress file holds the dress itself, so a friend can open it in their own game and see every piece up close.
The photo screen comes up when you finish a dress. For a dress you finished before, open its page in your sketchbook.
On a finished dress's page, Photo Mode takes that dress back to the photo screen for a new photo or an export. You won't see the sell or delivery card there.
Export opens a window to save the file. You choose the folder, and the game suggests a name made of Dress_ and the date and time. The file ends in .dress, and inside it's plain text, not a picture.
Pick a folder you'll find again, like your Desktop or Documents, and give the file a name you'll recognise. The game doesn't keep its own copy anywhere, so the window is your only chance to choose.
A .dress file isn't a picture, so friends can't see it until they import it. Take a photo as well, so people know what they're opening.
On the photo screen, Take Photo snaps the picture and opens a preview. Press Save to keep it as a picture file wherever you like: a square photo, 1920 by 1920 pixels, with the game's logo in the bottom right corner. Retake Photo closes the preview so you can try again.
You can't open a .dress file by double-clicking it. Open it from inside the game instead.
Import opens a window where you pick one .dress file. Its dress takes the place of the one on the photo mannequin. It's only there to look at: the dress you deliver or sell is still the one you made, and nothing new goes into your sketchbook.
The calmest place to do it is a finished dress's page: press Photo Mode
, then Import
. There's no delivery or sell card on that screen, so you can turn the imported dress around and photograph it in peace.
The photo screen has its own camera buttons. Hold one down and the camera keeps moving: the magnifiers zoom in and out, the curved arrows circle the mannequin or raise and lower the camera, and the small triangles aim it higher or lower. The house button resets the camera. The mannequin itself turns with the mouse wheel, A and D, or a drag.
On the photo screen you can only look. To change a dress from a file, import it from your sketchbook instead. That button only shows in debug mode.
The developers said the same on the official Discord:
You can export/import from the photo scene always, but to import/export from the sketchbook you need to enable cheatsA developer, Discord, 2026-09-22
Hold the left Ctrl and left Shift keys and press C to turn on the game's debug mode. It works on the title screen and while you play, and it stays on until you close the game. On a Mac, use Control, not Command.
Importing replaces the dress you're working on, so first turn to a page you're happy to clear. If that dress matters to you, export it before you import anything.
With debug mode on, the page of your current dress in the sketchbook shows two more buttons, Import and Export. Their labels stay in English in every language. Export there saves the dress you're working on as a .dress file. Import there clears away the dress you're working on and puts the file's dress in its place as your current dress, loaded the same way the game loads a dress in progress from your save. From there you carry on with it like any other dress.
Debug mode has no off switch. Close the game, start it again, and it's gone. Loading your save without closing the game leaves it on.
In the Steam game, debug mode changes only a few things. A note says Debug mode enabled the first time you turn it on. Export Save shows in the pause menu and Import Save on the title screen. Your current dress's page gets Import and Export buttons. Commission names in your sketchbook get the game's own inner name in brackets after them. It gives you no gold and unlocks nothing.
So a commission name with an odd word in brackets after it just means debug mode is still on. Nothing in your save has changed, and it goes away when you restart the game.
Debug mode can also move a whole save to another computer. The saves guide shows how, and why Import Save
needs care.
Importin the game.
Import Savewhen you meant to import a dress. It writes over the save in your first slot.
The sketchbook guide covers the photo screen's other buttons, and the saves guide covers backups.