93% less estimated fabric
Lowest estimated fabric use among Bodices
Glamour +35 · Risqué +35
Unlock source not documented
Fabric calculator
Dressmaker Fabric Calculator
Pick a cut, or open the dress you built, and the estimate is broken down by part, by cloth and by variant — with what each swap would change before you make it.
178 patterns · 236 cuts · 352 fabrics · build 25482629
What are you pricing?
A whole dress is the sum of its parts. Start with the question you actually have.
Pattern
Every cut the game can make for this part, lightest estimate first. Each row is priced at its own lightest variant.
- Apron Bodice7 panels · Variant 10.76Estimated fabric useRequires Priya Lv.1
- Black Widow Bodice1 panel · Variant 10.05Estimated fabric useUnlock source not documented
- Carmilla Bodice1 panel · Variant 10.05Estimated fabric useUnlock source not documented
- Cinched Blouse1 panel · Variant 10.05Estimated fabric useUnlock source not documented
- Elevated Ruffled Square Bodice1 panel · Variant 10.05Estimated fabric useUnlock source not documented
- Ruffled Square Bodice1 panel · Variant 10.05Estimated fabric useUnlock source not documented
- Sweet Maiden Bodice1 panel · Variant 10.05Estimated fabric useUnlock source not documented
- Widow Bodice1 panel · Variant 10.05Estimated fabric useUnlock source not documented
- Ruched Sweetheart Bodice2 panels · Variant 10.31Estimated fabric useRequires Prudence Lv.2
- One Shoulder Bodice2 panels · Variant 10.33Estimated fabric use
- Halter Neck Bodice5 panels · Variant 10.41Estimated fabric useRequires Marie Lv.3
- Ruched Bodice2 panels · Variant 10.41Estimated fabric useRequires Rose Lv.4
- Twilight Hour Bodice5 panels · Variant 10.43Estimated fabric useRequires Vivian Lv.1
Total fabric estimate
Estimated fabric use
0.76
7 panels · 1 part
Based on the selected patterns and their panel layout.
Advanced
The panel areas the estimate is built from, exactly as the game records them. They are not the estimate and are not meant to be read as a total on their own.
- Bodice
- 0.3682
- Total panel area
- 0.3682
By component
Which part takes the cloth. Shares are of this garment's own estimate.
View the 7 panels of this cut
Shares are of this cut alone, not of the whole garment. Bias cut is the game's own per-panel flag; it is a fact about construction, not an extra charge on the cloth.
The panels of the cut on the bench Panel Grain Bias cut Share of the cut Undershirt Front Straight grain Not bias cut 35% of the cut Undershirt Back Straight grain Not bias cut 32% of the cut Bodice Front Straight grain Not bias cut 13% of the cut Bodice Strap Left Straight grain Not bias cut 6% of the cut Bodice Strap Right Straight grain Not bias cut 6% of the cut Apron Belt Front Straight grain Not bias cut 5% of the cut Apron Belt Back Straight grain Not bias cut 3% of the cut
By fabric
One row per cloth, however many parts wear it. A dress cut from one cloth is one row, not four.
No cloth on the bench yet
This is a cut rather than a dress, so no cloth is assigned to it. How much cloth a cut needs does not depend on which cloth you choose — the cloth decides the cost and the style, not the amount.
Variants of this cut
Every way this pattern ships, measured against the cut on the bench.
Compare alternatives
One swap at a time: what the garment looks like if this part is cut differently.
Nothing to weigh against yet — pick a pattern first.
Weigh another cut
Same part only — a bodice is not an alternative to a skirt, it is a different hole in the dress.
Want to use less fabric?
Lighter cuts of the same part, each with the style it moves. A pattern's styles do not depend on the cloth or the cut, so the trade is the trade.
- Black Widow BodiceVariant 10.05
- Carmilla BodiceVariant 10.05
93% less estimated fabric
Eveningwear +30 · Glamour +30
Unlock source not documented
- Cinched BlouseVariant 10.05
93% less estimated fabric
Glamour +30 · Elegant +25
Unlock source not documented
- Elevated Ruffled Square BodiceVariant 10.05
93% less estimated fabric
Professional +20 · Simple −20
Unlock source not documented
How the estimate is worked out
The estimate is the total area of the panels in the selected cuts, plus a cloth allowance over that area, plus a fixed allowance for every panel. It is the game's own arithmetic rather than an approximation of it.
More panels do not mean a bigger garment — a ruffled bodice and a plain one can cover the same body and still need different amounts of cloth, because every panel carries its own extra allowance. That is why the panel count is printed beside the estimate instead of being folded into a rating.
Total fabric estimate
- Area allowance
- 0.04
- Panel allowance
- 0.35
What this page is, and what it is not
Money and style belong to other pages; this one answers how much cloth a cut or a garment needs. It counts no decorations, because a decoration is laid on rather than cut from cloth, and it converts the estimate into no real-world unit, because the game records none.
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Where this number is spent.
- Open in Dress BuilderChange the cloth, the sleeves, the collar or the decorations — the workbench is where a garment is edited, and it scores the change as you make it.
- Browse every patternThe whole pattern catalogue, filtered by style, fabric use, panel count and unlock.
- Browse fabricsEvery cloth the game has, with its type, its colours, its price and the styles it moves.
Why the estimate behaves the way it does:How fabric usage is calculated
Estimating fabric for a dress
The fabric calculator turns a pattern into a cloth figure. Pick a cut — bodice, skirt, sleeve or collar — or open the whole dress you built in the workbench, and the page prices every panel that pattern cuts.
Every figure comes from the game's own arithmetic: the total area of the selected panels, plus a cloth allowance over that area, plus a small allowance for each panel in the cut. That is why the panel count matters. Two bodices with the same outline and different panel counts do not need the same amount of fabric, and the difference is visible here rather than hidden inside a rating.
Because the estimate is per pattern and per variant, swapping one pattern for another is a calculation rather than a guess. The comparison table puts two cuts side by side on panels, estimated fabric, the difference and bias-cut panels, and the lower-fabric shelf names what a lighter cut costs in style — the styles a pattern moves are published by the game, so the trade is stated instead of implied.
The result is the amount of fabric the game charges for a cut, not a measurement in metres or yards: the game data records no real-world unit, and inventing one would be a guess dressed up as a number. Fabric choice changes what a dress costs and how it scores; it does not change how much fabric it takes.