No, you can't sell fabric back in Dressmaker, but you can sew it into a dress and sell the dress with Sell As Off-Rack
. Off-the-rack dresses, the ones you sew without a client, sell for extra gold and prestige. A client who takes your dress pays the whole budget, but you bought the fabric first, so you're up by the budget minus what you spent on the dress.
No, you can't sell fabric back. You can't sell fabric or accessories back, so it pays to buy just what you need.
You can sell a dress, though. Sew your fabric into one, then press Sell As Off-Rack
on the photo screen. Selling a dress explains the price. Bought more than you need? The metres you don't cut stay on the roll for your next dress.
Before you spend, compare on the fabric pages. Each one shows the tags that fabric brings.
Sew for your clients and sell the dresses you make. Gold comes from just two places: the budget a client pays when you deliver a commission, and the price of a dress you sell. Nothing else in the game pays you gold.
You start with some gold and fabric, listed in What you start with. After that, commissions pay like this:
Adora's two are Proper Lady and Cheerful Frog, so keep an eye out for Adora in the pigeon list. In the sketchbook, a commission's budget shows as its reward, under the lines it asks for. The commissions page lists the budget of every story and pigeon commission, and Payment covers dresses that miss a line.
Selling dresses is the other way to earn. Selling a dress has the price rule, and the accessories on it pay off too:
Out of gold and can't buy fabric? Running out happens to lots of players, and you can always earn your way back. Try these steps in order.
Look through your fabric rolls and your accessories before you buy anything new.
You can drag the items to rearrange, or drag them back to the inventory to remove.
The bin gives fabric back too, as long as you haven't cut off the used slice (The bin).
Burlap costs nothing, so there's always a fabric you can afford. It pulls most tags down, which suits practice and dresses you plan to sell. But the tags it raises are just what some commissions want, like Not Haughty. Free fabric: Burlap names them.
Selling a dress says when off-the-rack dresses unlock.
The fabric type pages give the price range of each type.
The budget comes when you hand the dress over, and most commissions pay even if the dress misses a line. Payment lists the ones that don't.
Expected a commission's whole budget, and found less gold in your purse? Accepting a commission pays nothing yet, so plan your fabric around the gold you already have. The budget comes when you hand over the dress with Complete Commission
, so the gold you had while sewing was what you started with.
Each commission has a set budget, shown under its requirement lines in your sketchbook. You get that amount whatever the dress cost you, so every coin you save on fabric is yours to keep.
These story commissions reopen every time the dress fails:
For example, say your dress has 62 gold of materials and 22 of labour, quality 90, and you're at Rank 12. The bonuses are 140% for quality and 112% for rank, so it sells for (62 + 22) x 140% x 112% = 132 gold.
Want the number without the maths? The Sell Price tool works it out from your dress and your rank.
It's the percentage your sell price is multiplied by, and it grows with your rank. The Prestige Bonus (%) line on the sale summary comes from your rank: it is 100% plus one for each rank. At the top rank, Rank 50, it reads 150%, so a higher rank means more gold for the same dress.
Selling a dress also adds 0.01 x its quality in prestige, scaled the same way as the prestige from any other dress. The ranks guide shows every way to earn prestige and climb a rank.
You can now also make off the rack dresses which you can sell for extra income and prestige!
The Burlap page lists every tag it raises and lowers.
You can always recut or dispose if you are unhappy - you will get back the piece of fabric you used!
It cuts the used part off a fabric roll, and you get no gold back for it. Cut off the used fabric shows how the button works.
Once you cut off a used slice, that fabric is gone for good. The bin can still turn the piece back to paper, but those metres never come back.
So before you discard a used slice, make sure you're happy with every piece you cut from it. The game gives the same tip:
You can discard used parts of your fabric to make space for more pieces by pressing the discard fabric button.