Who Prudence is, and how her commissions pass
Prudence is one of the ten named Dressmaker customers, described by the Cozy Game Guides character index as a would-be duchess with a secret at home. Every commission is judged on the card itself: the finished dress must meet the stated Quality score, hit each style threshold and avoid any banned detail. Her measurements are 96.0 / 69.5 / 103.4 (bust / waist / hips), and fit to those numbers is the largest part of Quality.
- Customer
- Prudence Mortimer — would-be duchess, one of the ten named clients
- Measurements
- 96.0 / 69.5 / 103.4 (bust / waist / hips)
- Storyline achievement
- Prudence and Prejudice
- Global unlock rate
- 1.1% of Steam players (read September 29, 2026)
- Commissions
- Seven numbered story cards from #2 to #52, plus two optional orders
- Backstory & gifts
- Unconfirmed — the character index teases a secret at home and gift preferences, but publishes no detail
Prudence’s commissions, card by card
The Cozy Game Guides commission pages list these orders for Prudence, in story order. Only Never the Bride and Secret Gallery Visit publish full requirement sets; the rest are listed here by name and card number.
| Card | Commission | Type |
|---|---|---|
| #2 | Flamboyant Funeral | Main story |
| #11 | Undercover Servant | Main story |
| Optional | Not Haughty | Optional order |
| #24 | Floral Romance | Main story |
| Optional | Good Aunt | Optional order |
| #30 | Secret Gallery Visit | Main story |
| #35 | Never the Bride | Main story |
| #46 | Sudden Departure | Main story |
| #52 | Painted Dream | Main story |
Never the Bride: exact requirements
The card reads “A defiant black dress for Marie’s wedding” and belongs to the town event Duke Hassan’s wedding. It is the tighter of Prudence’s two documented briefs: one high style bar, two mid bars, a material ban and a colour restriction.
- Card
- Main story card #35 — “A defiant black dress for Marie’s wedding.”
- Town event
- Duke Hassan’s wedding
- Budget
- 1,500 — payment only, not a pass/fail rule
- Quality
- 80+
- Style bars
- Risqué 85+, Glamour 50+, Elaborate 50+
- Restrictions
- Flowers 0 max; Black only
- Quality 80+ is the score shown after sewing; fit to the 96.0 / 69.5 / 103.4 measurements is the biggest part of it.
- Risqué 85+ is the hardest bar on the card. Style values come from the fabrics, patterns and trims you pick, so watch the bar while you design rather than after sewing.
- Flowers must stay at 0 or below, so leave out any piece that adds Flowers.
- Black only: nothing else may appear on the dress. A single non-black element fails the colour rule even if every score is high enough.
Secret Gallery Visit: exact requirements
The card reads “A disguise for Priya’s exhibition” and belongs to Priya’s exhibition opening. It asks for a lower Quality score than Never the Bride but spreads its demand across three style bars.
- Card
- Main story card #30 — “A disguise for Priya’s exhibition.”
- Town event
- Priya’s exhibition opening
- Budget
- 750 — payment only, not a pass/fail rule
- Quality
- 70+
- Style bars
- Cute 50+, Playful 50+, Patterned 50+
- Quality 70+ is ten points below Never the Bride’s floor, but the dress still has to fit Prudence’s measurements closely to get there.
- Cute, Playful and Patterned all have to reach 50 or more, so balance three style bars instead of pushing one high.
- Patterned 50+ means the pattern choice does real work here; a plain fabric leaves the bar short however well the dress fits.
In both briefs the budget is what Prudence pays, not a pass/fail rule. A dress that meets every requirement passes at any spend up to the budget; the figure only sets the commission’s pay.
Prudence and Prejudice
Prudence’s storyline achievement is Prudence and Prejudice. Steam’s global achievement statistics listed it at 1.1% on September 29, 2026, the lowest of the ten customer storyline achievements.
- Official description: “Complete all of Prudence’s major commissions.” All ten customer achievements follow that one template, one per named client.
- Global unlock rate: 1.1% when the statistics were read on September 29, 2026. It sits below Vivian’s Good Girl Gone Vlad at 1.4%, and below every other storyline achievement.
- The low rate fits the card numbers: her documented orders run from #2 to #52, so finishing the set means playing deep into the story rather than clearing one difficult brief.
What the sources do not say about Prudence
The two commission pages document card #30 and card #35 in full. Everything outside those briefs is either a name in a list or marked Unconfirmed rather than filled in.
- Her backstory and the “secret at home”: Unconfirmed. The character index teases both; the commission pages do not explain either.
- Her gift preferences: Unconfirmed. The character index promises a list, but no values appear in the commission material used here.
- Requirements for Flamboyant Funeral, Undercover Servant, Not Haughty, Floral Romance, Good Aunt, Sudden Departure and Painted Dream: not published on the two pages used here, so this page does not guess at their thresholds.
- Whether the optional orders Not Haughty and Good Aunt count toward Prudence and Prejudice: Unconfirmed. The achievement description says “major commissions” without defining the set.
Prudence is one thread of a larger narrative: the story page explains how Twillford and the client storylines carry Dressmaker’s plot, and where the confirmed facts stop. Story →