Town commissions
reputation and coin
A town of people commission custom-made dresses for events and tastes. Turning dresses in gains reputation and coin. Steam Achievements name ten clients whose major commissions can be completed: Alice, Rose, Dorothy, Fiona, Adora, Marie, Vivian, Edith, Priya, and Prudence. May Tea said 9 of 10 planned characters were illustrated during development; the live achievement list is the ten-name set this page uses.
Build 403 requires ringing a shop bell to summon the next customer. You do not get an automatic queue after a delivery. The press still of Prudence collecting a finished commission is the tone of the desk: a person in the shop, a dress in her hands, not a faceless order ticket. Story commissions are about 35 hours before you count the window, which is the container for these ten chains plus whoever else walks in after the bell.
Ten named clients and their achievements
Visible achievement text is the source for the ten names. Each row asks you to complete all of that client's major commissions, not a single dress. Unlock rates on those rows sit well below the early hidden goals: Caw Evermore is at 0.6 percent, while Laid To Dress sits at 66.5 percent, which tells you the major-commission chains are late work.
After Party Tea from Elyaradine describes a large cast of women of different shapes, sizes, ages and personalities, and a shop about bespoke clothing rather than scaling a fashion empire. That matches April Tea's measurement note: the mannequin and pattern pieces follow the person. Alice is not a reskin of Prudence.
No first-party portrait set per client shipped as separate store assets, so the ten names sit in a table rather than on their own portrait pages. The names are still real: they are printed on Steam.
| Client | Achievement | Task |
|---|---|---|
| Alice | Caw Evermore | Complete all of Alice's major commissions. |
| Rose | A Rose By Any Other Name | Complete all of Rose's major commissions. |
| Dorothy | Snitches Get Stitches | Complete all of Dorothy's major commissions. |
| Fiona | Reap what You Sew | Complete all of Fiona's major commissions. |
| Adora | Go Off, Queen! | Complete all of Adora's major commissions. |
| Marie | G.O.A.T. | Complete all of Marie's major commissions. |
| Vivian | Good Girl Gone Vlad | Complete all of Vivian's major commissions. |
| Edith | Swan Song | Complete all of Edith's major commissions. |
| Priya | Drawn to Hue | Complete all of Priya's major commissions. |
| Prudence | Prudence and Prejudice | Complete all of Prudence's major commissions. |
Ring the bell for the next customer
Build 403 changed shop flow: you ring a bell to summon the next customer. If the counter feels empty after a delivery, that is the new rule, not a missing spawn. The same patch pays accepted failed commissions, so a client can still leave coin behind when the dress missed the brief.
Reputation and coin are the store's two payouts for turning work in. Off-the-rack sales in the shop window are the other money path and sit outside the 35-hour story-commission estimate. Use commissions for the named chains; use the window when you want a break from tastes and events.
Pigeon mail is a separate visible goal: Birds of a Feather, Frock Together asks you to complete all the commissions received via pigeon. You've Got Mail stays hidden on the community page, so the title pun is not a published trigger.
Fit, taste, and why reuse fails
Because each character is measured, a layout that closed Alice's chain will not automatically close Rose's. Recut on grain or bias for the form in front of you. The sketchbook should carry the new event's constraints before you spend silk.
Tastes are not published as a spreadsheet of likes. Play the dialogue and the request on screen rather than assuming favourite colours for Dorothy or Fiona.
If you want a mechanical next step after a delivery, sew less and listen more: ring the bell, read the new brief, then buy cloth. The making loop still starts at fabric.
Cast size and what is still unlisted
May Tea reported 9 of 10 planned characters illustrated. The achievement list now names ten clients. Those two facts sit together without a public eleventh portrait. Edmund appears in term maps as a name not to translate; he is not given a major-commission achievement on the community page.
If a name is not on Steam achievements or in first-party news, it does not get a row here.
Story time is about 35 hours of commissions excluding off-rack. That is the container for these ten chains plus the unnamed townsfolk who still walk in when you ring the bell.
Reputation, coin, and failed tickets
Steam extras say turning dresses in gains reputation and coin. That pair is the commission payout. Window sales add coin without advancing the ten major-commission rows. If you care about Caw Evermore or Prudence and Prejudice, you have to finish those chains, not stock the glass.
Build 403 pays accepted failed commissions. A dress that missed taste can still fund the next roll of silk. That is the studio telling you experimentation is cheaper than it was on day one, not that quality stopped mattering — 100% quality is still a public achievement.
Pigeon jobs are a third inbox. Complete all commissions received via pigeon for Birds of a Feather, Frock Together. Do not assume every bell ring is a pigeon, and do not assume You’ve Got Mail is the same row.