Costumer
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Takes about thirty seconds — we'll use this to save your quotes and tailor pricing to your market.
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What are you creating today?
Choose a costume type to start your quote — pricing adjusts as you add features.
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Routine setup
Set up this routine before you start pricing.
Upload inspiration photos, sketches, fabric swatches, and client references for this design.
Routine Documents (optional)
Add links to measurement sheets, mood boards, or client files — Google Docs, Dropbox, OneDrive. Costumer saves the link, not the file.
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Design features
Select everything that applies — your price updates as you go.
Building this routine's quote
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Each costume in a routine is priced independently. The same timeline and client details apply to all designs in this quote.
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How much time do you have?
Tighter timelines come with a fee — this keeps it fair for you.
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Client details
A contact name is required, unless you already added a project name back in Step 2. Everything below is optional and can be filled in later.
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Your Profitability
Price Breakdown per costume
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Activity Log
Quick links to measurement sheets, notes, or shared client files — Google Docs, Sheets, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. Costumer just stores the link.
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Everyone you work with — dancers, parents, and studios — saved here for quick reuse on future quotes.
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Dance Costume Pricing Guide
Your price starts with construction, not decoration
The Base Costume price already covers premium dancewear fabric, professional construction, lining, elastic, closures, and basic straps. Everything you add from there — lace, appliqués, rhinestones, fringe, feathers, and more — is priced separately and stacks on top.
Lace is a primary design element, not an add-on afterthought
Most lyrical and ballet costumes lean on lace — motifs, overlays, trims, or purchased appliqués — as a core part of the design. Purchased Appliqués is priced accordingly, from a light accent to a heavily lace-covered bodice.
Rhinestones scale with real cost and labour
A light scatter is mostly aesthetic. Moderate coverage is the common competitive level. Heavy and Competition Level stoning involve significant stone cost and many hours of placement — the pricing reflects that jump, not just "more sparkle."
Production Efficiency Savings aren't a discount
When the same design is produced for multiple dancers, shared pattern-making and production setup means the base costume costs less per unit. That savings applies to the Base Costume only — rhinestones, appliqué, feathers, and other features cost the same per costume no matter the group size.
Your Effective Hourly Rate is the real story
Estimated Profit is what's left after materials. Effective Hourly Rate divides that by the time the design likely takes — so you can see, at a glance, whether a price is actually paying you fairly for your skill and time, not just covering your costs.
Rush and urgent timelines deserve a fee
A tight deadline means rearranging your schedule and possibly turning away other work. The fee isn't a penalty to your client — it's the real cost of flexibility, and it lifts your Effective Hourly Rate accordingly.
If a client pushes back on price
Walk through the breakdown with them — most pushback softens once a client sees exactly what they're paying for, feature by feature.
Want to adjust your own prices? Edit Feature Prices →
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Your Location
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Taxes
Applied to every quote automatically. Change your status or rate here anytime.
Feature Pricing
Customize what each design feature adds to the costume price — Skirt Style, Rhinestones, Mesh, Accessories, and more. Changes apply to new quotes going forward.
Exchange Rates
All prices are set in CAD. These rates convert displayed prices into your own currency above (if not Canada) and into a client studio's currency when a quote is linked to a studio in another country. These are manual rates, not live — update them periodically.
1 USD = 1.0000 USD (reference currency)
Membership
Full access to pricing, quoting, and studio management — with clients, measurements, and production tracking coming soon as part of the same membership.
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Resources
Adjust what each design option adds to the costume price. Changes apply to new quotes — saved quotes keep their original pricing.