Bias Cut Skirt
Bias Cut Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Elegant +25, Eveningwear +25, Formal +20, Simple +20. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is High. It is available from the start of a save.
- Elegant +25
- Eveningwear +25
- One cut
- 6 panels
- High fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Bias Cut Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
This pattern comes with the save. There is no relationship level or quest standing between you and cutting it.
How to unlock Bias Cut Skirt
Available from the start
This pattern comes with the save. There is no relationship level or quest standing between you and cutting it.
One of 40 patterns available from the first day of a save.
Why is this still locked?Variants
The game ships one way to cut Bias Cut Skirt.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 6 pieces
- All cut on the bias
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
6 pieces means a print, a stripe or a gradient has to be lined up across the seams. Matching a repeating print
Need help with cutting?
Did you cut every Bias Cut Skirt piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 6 of 6: Skirt Front, Skirt Back, and Skirt Left Back and 3 more
What styles does Bias Cut Skirt add?
Raises 8 styles and lowers 2.
Lowers
This pattern adds its own style contribution. The fabric you cut it in changes the final dress score further, and so do the other three patterns.
How style scores workFabric use & construction
Compared with the other Skirt variants: High.
Lower than 67% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 1.907
The export's own estimate. The game data names no unit for it, which is why the band and the percentile beside it are the parts to compare.
Calculate fabric use for Bias Cut Skirt- Panels
- 6 panels
- Grain directions
- On the bias
- Grain is read from the direction each panel is laid in the export. Bias cut is the game's own per-panel flag rather than a reading of that vector, and where the two disagree both are shown as published.
Where Bias Cut Skirt is useful
What Bias Cut Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Bias Cut Skirt helps with
Commissions using Bias Cut Skirt
- Gala SupporterUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+15 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 40+10 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 50
- A gift for MarieUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+10 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50
- Exotic MothUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+25 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+15 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 50
- Flamboyant FuneralUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+25 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 65+15 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 40
- Graveside VisitUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+10 Warm, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50
- Goat MediationUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+10 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 50
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Bias Cut Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Gala Supporter out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverBias Cut Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Waterfall Skirt9 panelsHigh+15 Eclectic+10 Daywear3 more panelsUnlocked laterBias Cut Skirt vs Waterfall Skirt
- Kaftan Skirt6 panelsHigh+15 Eclectic−10 Simple1 more variantsUnlocked laterBias Cut Skirt vs Kaftan Skirt
- Split Skirt11 panelsHigh−25 Simple+20 Elaborate5 more panelsUnlocked laterBias Cut Skirt vs Split Skirt
- Gathered Ballgown Skirt6 panelsHigh−25 Simple+15 RomanticBias Cut Skirt vs Gathered Ballgown Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Bias Cut Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Bias Cut Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Bias Cut Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Bias Cut SkirtTake it into the finder's comparison tray, then pick a second pattern to weigh against it.
- All Skirt patternsEvery pattern of the same part, with the finder's own filters and sort orders.
Bias Cut Skirt questions
How do I unlock Bias Cut Skirt?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Bias Cut Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Elegant +25, Eveningwear +25, Formal +20, Simple +20.
How many pieces does Bias Cut Skirt have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Bias Cut Skirt use bias cut?
Yes — some of its panels are cut on the bias.
Is Bias Cut Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 67% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Bias Cut Skirt?
It is cut into 7 validated commission solutions.
Learn the systems behind this pattern
Style scores, cutting, cloth and unlocking each have a page of their own.
How Style Scores Work
What a pattern's tag, a fabric's weight and an accessory's pull each do to the final score.
OpenCutting & Bias
What laying a panel on the bias does to the way a dress falls, and when it is worth the cloth.
OpenFabric Usage
How much cloth each part of a dress takes, and where the fabric-use estimate comes from.
OpenProgression Unlocks
Which relationships and levels hand over which patterns, across the whole catalogue.
Open
Cutting this one in a gradient, a stripe or a print? Panels that sit side by side have to line up. How to match fabric patterns
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