Dressmaker Achievements: All 16 & Why Few Finish

All 16 visible Dressmaker achievements with Steam completion rates, from 78.3% down to 4.4% — and why the client commission chains are the real gate.

Short answer: Dressmaker has 32 achievements — 16 visible and 16 hidden. Average completion across the visible set is 12.2%. Only one visible achievement is above 20%: 99 Problems But A Stitch Ain't One at 78.3% (finish a dress at 100% quality). Everything else sits between 4.4% and 9.9% — meaning fewer than one in ten players finish a single client's full commission chain.

That is not a difficulty signal. Dressmaker is not hard. It is a length signal: the achievements reward finishing entire relationship arcs, and most players stop mid-arc.

32 total, 16 visible, 16 hidden

Source	Count	What it covers
Steam store page	32	All achievement slots
Steam community page — named	16	Achievements with a name and global rate
Steam community page — hidden	16	"Details revealed once you unlock it"

Half the list is hidden, which is normal for a narrative game whose achievements encode story beats and dialogue choices.

All 16 visible achievements

#	Achievement	Requirement	Completion	Rarity
1	99 Problems But A Stitch Ain't One	Achieve 100% quality on a dress	78.3%	Common
2	Sew Long	Complete the ruffle skirt for the first time	18.5%	Uncommon
3	Caw Evermore	Complete all of Alice's major commissions	9.9%	Rare
4	A Rose By Any Other Name	Complete all of Rose's major commissions	9.6%	Rare
5	Snitches Get Stitches	Complete all of Dorothy's major commissions	8.7%	Rare
6	Reap what You Sew	Complete all of Fiona's major commissions	8.3%	Rare
7	G.O.A.T.	Complete all of Marie's major commissions	7.5%	Rare
8	Go Off, Queen!	Complete all of Adora's major commissions	7.1%	Rare
9	Good Girl Gone Vlad	Complete all of Vivian's major commissions	6.8%	Rare
10	Harder than it Seams	Place over 300 accessories on one dress	6.6%	Rare
11	Swan Song	Complete all of Edith's major commissions	6.4%	Rare
12	Opulence and Excess	Spend more than 5,000 gold on a successful dress	6.3%	Rare
13	Drawn to Hue	Complete all of Priya's major commissions	6.0%	Rare
14	Prudence and Prejudice	Complete all of Prudence's major commissions	5.8%	Rare
15	Birds of a Feather, Frock Together	Complete all commissions received via pigeon	5.2%	Rare
16	Trim and Proper	Use more than 50m of trim on a single dress	4.4%	Very rare

The one achievement almost everyone has

99 Problems But A Stitch Ain't One — 78.3%. Reach 100% quality on a dress: correct grain on every pattern piece, clean seams, client requirements met. The print patterns guide covers grain direction and piece layout, which is where most sub-100% results come from. If you play Dressmaker at all, you will get this.

Its 78.3% is the tell that the low numbers elsewhere are not about difficulty — the same players who can hit perfect quality simply do not finish whole commission chains.

Ten client chains, and a hard ceiling at 9.9%

Every "complete all of X's major commissions" achievement sits between 5.8% and 9.9%:

Client	Achievement	Completion
Alice	Caw Evermore	9.9%
Rose	A Rose By Any Other Name	9.6%
Dorothy	Snitches Get Stitches	8.7%
Fiona	Reap what You Sew	8.3%
Marie	G.O.A.T.	7.5%
Adora	Go Off, Queen!	7.1%
Vivian	Good Girl Gone Vlad	6.8%
Edith	Swan Song	6.4%
Priya	Drawn to Hue	6.0%
Prudence	Prudence and Prejudice	5.8%

The spread is only 4.1 points across ten characters. That flatness is informative: no single client is a bottleneck. The drop is uniform, which points to the same cause everywhere — players do some commissions for each character but not all of them, then move on.

Alice at 9.9% vs Prudence at 5.8% most likely reflects where each chain sits in the story, not how hard it is: earlier arcs get completed more often.

The four "deliberate excess" achievements

These are jokes with a requirement attached, and their rates show how few players bother.

Achievement	Requirement	Completion	Reading
Sew Long	Make the ruffle skirt once	18.5%	Reachable by accident
Harder than it Seams	300 accessories on one dress	6.6%	Pure absurdity — cheapest route is 300 one-coin buttons
Opulence and Excess	Spend 5,000+ gold on one successful dress	6.3%	Needs money and a client who accepts it
Trim and Proper	50m of trim on a single dress	4.4%	The rarest visible achievement

Trim and Proper at 4.4% is the rarest thing on the visible list, and it is not a skill test — it is a willingness test. Buying a fresh 50 m roll and using all of it on one garment is the only practical route; almost nobody does it by accident.

What the numbers say about finishing Dressmaker

Finish one client chain at a time. The ten achievements are per-character; spreading commissions leaves you with ten unfinished arcs and no achievements. The walkthrough sequences the chapters so you can close one arc before opening the next.
The pigeon chain is separate. Birds of a Feather, Frock Together (5.2%) tracks commissions delivered by pigeon — finishing a client's arc does not complete it.
Learn the core stitch loop before chasing the chains. The sewing guide covers the mechanics that decide quality; quality is the one thing every client judges, so it gates every chain at once.
Plan the excess achievements last. 300 accessories, 50 m of trim and a 5,000-gold dress are all easier once money is not the constraint, and none require a specific client.

Frequently asked questions

How many achievements does Dressmaker have?

32: 16 visible with public names and rates, plus 16 hidden.

Why are Dressmaker's completion rates so low?

Because most achievements require finishing an entire client commission chain, and the median player finishes part of several chains instead of all of one. The one achievement that only requires understanding the core loop sits at 78.3%, so the low numbers are about length, not difficulty.

What is the rarest visible Dressmaker achievement?

Trim and Proper at 4.4% (over 50 m of trim on one dress), followed by Birds of a Feather, Frock Together at 5.2%.

Are there missable achievements?

Almost certainly — 16 of the 32 are hidden, and hidden achievements in narrative games usually encode specific dialogue choices. Steam does not publish their conditions, so we do not list any: a "missable list" without confirmed triggers would be a guess.

Can I get 100% in one playthrough?

Unknown from public data. The visible 16 are all achievable in a single run if you finish every client chain and do the four excess achievements. Whether all 16 hidden ones are single-run achievable cannot be verified externally.

Source note: Completion rates are Steam's global figures, read from the public achievement page for Dressmaker (App 4019220) on 20 October 2026; the 32-slot total comes from the store data. Achievement names and requirement text are Steam's wording. Rarity bands and the client-chain grouping are ours. Hidden achievements are listed as a count only — no conditions are claimed.