Bow Skirt
Bow Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Cute +20, Playful +20, Romantic +20, Daywear +15. It uses 7 panels and its fabric use is High. It unlocks at relationship level 2 with Marie.
- Cute +20
- Playful +20
- One cut
- 7 panels
- High fabric use
- Marie Lv. 2
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Bow Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Complete Marie's commissions and raise the relationship to level 2, and the pattern is yours.
How to unlock Bow Skirt
Marie · Relationship Lv. 2
- Character
- Marie
- Relationship level
- 2
Complete Marie's commissions and raise the relationship to level 2, and the pattern is yours.
One of 117 patterns a relationship level hands over.
Why is this still locked?Variants
The game ships one way to cut Bow Skirt.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 7 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
7 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 Bow Skirt piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 7 of 7: Skirt Back, Skirt Back Left, and Skirt Back Right and 4 more
What styles does Bow Skirt add?
Raises 11 styles and lowers 0.
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 47% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 2.472
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 Bow Skirt- Panels
- 7 panels
- Grain directions
- Straight grain
- 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 Bow Skirt is useful
What Bow Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Bow Skirt helps with
Commissions using Bow Skirt
No validated commission solution is cut from Bow Skirt. The briefs that ask for the styles it raises are the ones it can still contribute to.
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Bow Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Check what a dress costs and whether it passes, before you cut into anything.
Open in the solverBow Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Frill Skirt8 panelsHigh−10 Casual−10 Eclectic1 more panelsBow Skirt vs Frill Skirt
- Single Tiered Skirt12 panelsHigh−20 Eveningwear−15 Glamour5 more panelsUnlocked earlierBow Skirt vs Single Tiered Skirt
- Yoke Gathered Skirt4 panelsHigh−20 Playful−15 Eveningwear3 fewer panelsUnlocked earlierBow Skirt vs Yoke Gathered Skirt
- Petal Peplum Skirt12 panelsHigh−20 Daywear−15 Casual5 more panelsBow Skirt vs Petal Peplum Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Bow Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Bow Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Bow Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Bow 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.
Bow Skirt questions
How do I unlock Bow Skirt?
Marie hands it over at relationship level 2.
Which styles does Bow Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Cute +20, Playful +20, Romantic +20, Daywear +15.
How many pieces does Bow Skirt have?
It uses 7 panels.
Does Bow Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Bow Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 47% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Bow Skirt?
No validated solution uses it. The commissions that ask for the styles it raises can still make use of it.
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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