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Dressmaker Lace Trim: Alice’s 100 cm commission

Alice’s first story commission, Studious Motivation, asks for 100 cm of Lace Trim — and it stalls players because Lace Trim is an accessory, not a fabric. Only items bought under the Lace Trim filter in the Accessories corner count toward it. The official sources confirm lace trims as a decoration type and trim tracked by length; the commission specifics below are community-sourced and labelled as such.

Facts checked October 2, 2026Reading time 4 min readEvidence cited per claim

Lace Trim is an accessory, not a fabric

The official Steam listing names lace trims as one of the decoration types — alongside buttons, bows and appliqué — which are accessories pinned onto a finished dress, not materials you sew from. Lace fabric (such as Ivory Lace) is a different thing entirely: a cloth that feeds style scores like Gothic and Romantic. A Lace Trim requirement is measured in centimetres, and only trim accessories count. The official achievement list backs the measurement itself — Trim and Proper asks for more than 50 metres of trim on a single dress, confirming the game tracks trim by length.

  • Lace Trim = accessory, bought in the Accessories corner of the shop and pinned onto a finished dress.
  • Lace fabric = a material you sew the dress from; it feeds style scores, not the centimetre counter.
  • Trust the Lace Trim filter, not the item name — community reports confirm some items with "lace" in the name do not carry the tag.

Getting Lace Trim to register

The workflow community guides converge on, consistent with the official accessory mechanics:

1

Finish the dress first

Sew the commission dress before trimming. Lace Trim is pinned onto a finished garment, so complete the sewing step, then head back to the shop.

2

Open the Accessories corner

Trim lives with the other decorations — buttons, bows and appliqué — not with the fabric bolts.

3

Filter by Lace Trim

Use the Lace Trim filter and buy an item that appears under it. The filter is the authority; the item’s display name is not.

4

Pin until the counter hits 100 cm

Pin the trim onto the dress and watch the commission counter. Community reports suggest a single length may not reach 100 cm — expect to add a second stretch.

Studious Motivation targets

Alice’s targets as reported by a community guide. No official source publishes per-commission numbers, so treat every figure here as community-sourced and Unconfirmed:

Quality
75+ (community-sourced)
Gothic
40+ (community-sourced)
Romantic
25+ (community-sourced)
Lace Trim
100 cm (community-sourced)
Budget
250 (community-sourced)

When the counter will not move

This section reports community findings, clearly labelled — they are not official statements. The one official fact here is the Build 403 fix, from the developers’ patch notes.

Official patch

Build 403 fixed missing Lace Trim tags

The official Build 403 patch notes (September 22, 2026) fixed some lace items that were missing their Lace Trim tag — so a counter stuck at launch may simply be old news. Patch first, then re-check the filter. Build 410 (September 24) lists no further lace fix.

Community report

The lace-fabric workaround does not work

A "use lace fabric instead" tip circulated on the Steam forums as a fix. Players who tested it report the counter stayed at 0/100 — consistent with the official framing of trims as accessories, not fabrics.

Community report

Some items are inconsistent

Players disagree about specific items — Black Lace is named as counting for some and not for others. Test a short stretch before buying a pile of any single trim.

Community report

Stalled counters after the patch

Scattered reports of stalled counters persist after Build 403, but no universal bug is confirmed. If a filter-listed item still will not count, email [email protected] with the commission name, item name, counter value and build number.

How to place Lace Trim cleanly

Techniques from community guides for getting trim to sit right on the garment:

Community guide

Use short pin runs on curves

Drop a pin every few centimetres: more pins mean the trim hugs curves and folds instead of cutting across them. Start on the hem, and zoom and rotate the camera to reach backs and cuffs.

Community guide

Fix clipping or upside-down trim

Click a red pin on the trim to open the edit panel — rotation, size, raise/lower, plus Duplicate and Reset; hold a button to change values faster. Tilt clipping trim up a little; if it is upside down, drag the other way.

Community guide

Turn on the Rotation Gizmo

For direct 3D rotation, enable the Accessory Rotation Gizmo in Settings.

Community guide

Move or extend a run

Trim only edits while the Accessories menu is open. Hover the trim and click a pin to reveal the red pins: drag one to move it, click one to keep extending the run.

Where these facts come from

This site is built from three official sources: the Steam store listing, Steam’s global achievement statistics and the developer’s own Steam announcements. Everything they state is quoted or paraphrased with the source cited; anything none of them states — per-fabric stats, hidden achievement conditions, what sabotage changes — is marked Unconfirmed rather than filled in. Nothing here is sourced from community wikis or datamining, and generated illustrations are labelled as such.

  • Official Dressmaker on Steam (app 4019220) — The official store listing, read September 29, 2026. Source of the release date (September 21, 2026), the $14.99 price, Windows/Mac support, language support (English, Simplified Chinese and Japanese with full audio), the single-player/casual-simulation classification, the named fabrics (cotton, linen, wool, silk, velvet), the decoration types (buttons, bows, appliqué, lace trims), the sketchbook, mannequin, grain/bias cutting, window-display and "satisfy (or sabotage!)" mechanics, the official system requirements, the interface feature flags (Mouse Only Option, Playable without Timed Input, Custom Volume Controls, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing), the Steam Deck compatibility rating shown on the store page, the review summary (Overwhelmingly Positive), the six bundles the game ships in, and the Screenhub pull quote.
  • Official Dressmaker — developer announcements on Steam — The Dressmaker team’s own announcement feed on Steam, read September 29, 2026. Source of the content roadmap from the launch post (September 21, 2026: an online challenge mode, transparent fabrics, controller support, and planned mobile and Switch ports), the price post (September 7, 2026: $14.99 with regional pricing and a -10% launch discount, approximately 35 hours of story commissions, over 150 dress pieces, over 450 fabrics and over 350 accessories, and more free content to come), the monthly development posts (per-character measuring and pattern drafting, custom fabric shaders, the off-the-rack feature, nine of ten characters illustrated, each with an over-the-top personality, and the team credits), and the two post-launch patch notes (Build 403 on September 22, 2026 and Build 410 on September 24, 2026).
  • Press review TPoseGaming — Dressmaker Lace Trim guide (community guide) — A community-written guide, not an official source — cited only where the Lace Trim page reports community findings: Alice’s Studious Motivation targets (Quality 75+, Gothic 40+, Romantic 25+, Lace Trim 100 cm, Budget 250), the Accessories-corner Lace Trim filter workflow, the lace-fabric rumour and the player testing that dismissed it, and the trim placement techniques. Every claim drawn from it is labelled community-sourced on the page rather than presented as official, and the official facts it overlaps (lace trims as a decoration type, the Build 403 tag fix) are cited to the Steam sources above instead.
Questions

Lace Trim questions

Does lace fabric count as Lace Trim?

No. The Lace Trim requirement is measured in centimetres and only trim accessories count — that is what the Accessories-corner filter is for. Lace fabric is a material you sew the dress from; community guides report it feeds style scores like Gothic and Romantic instead, and players who tested the fabric workaround got 0/100.

Why is my Lace Trim not counting?

Start with the official history: Build 403 (September 22, 2026) fixed lace items missing the Lace Trim tag, so make sure you are patched and buying through the filter. Community reports add that a few items are inconsistent and that isolated stalls persist post-patch with no confirmed universal bug — email [email protected] with the commission, item, counter value and build number if you are stuck.

Does any other commission need Lace Trim?

Not confirmed by available sources. Officially, trim length is also tracked outside commissions: the Trim and Proper achievement asks for more than 50 metres of trim on a single dress.

Does Lace Trim add Gothic or Romantic points?

Unconfirmed — no official source publishes per-accessory style scores. Community guides point at lace fabric, not trim, for Gothic and Romantic scores.