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Empire Princess Skirt

Empire Princess Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Formal +20, Professional +20, Casual +15, Cool +15. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is High. How to get it is not documented.

  • Formal +20
  • Professional +20
  • One cut
  • 6 panels
  • High fabric use
  • Unlock source not documented

Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.

What is Empire Princess Skirt good for?

Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.

How complex is it?

Extensive

6 panels in the selected variant.

How much fabric does it use?

High

75% of Skirt variants use more cloth.

How do I unlock it?

Unlock source not documented

Part, panels and style contributions are published for this pattern. Where it comes from is not.

How to unlock Empire Princess Skirt

Unlock source not documented

Part, panels and style contributions are published for this pattern. Where it comes from is not.

One of 21 patterns whose acquisition the game data does not document.

Why is this still locked?

Variants

The game ships one way to cut Empire Princess Skirt.

Pattern pieces

Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.

  • 6 pieces

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

Did you cut every Empire Princess 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 Front and 3 more

What styles does Empire Princess Skirt add?

Raises 16 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 work

Fabric use & construction

Compared with the other Skirt variants: High.

Lower than 75% of Skirt variants.

Estimated use
1.821

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 Empire Princess Skirt
Panels
6 panels
Bias-cut panels
None
What bias cut means
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 Empire Princess Skirt is useful

What Empire Princess Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.

Other commissions asking for these styles

The commission board indexes the styles Empire Princess Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.

Lay Not Haughty out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.

Open in the solver

Use this pattern

Everything above is about Empire Princess Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.

Empire Princess Skirt questions

  • How do I unlock Empire Princess Skirt?

    The game data does not document a normal unlock source for this pattern.

  • Which styles does Empire Princess Skirt raise?

    Its strongest contributions are Formal +20, Professional +20, Casual +15, Cool +15.

  • How many pieces does Empire Princess Skirt have?

    It uses 6 panels.

  • Does Empire Princess Skirt use bias cut?

    No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.

  • Is Empire Princess Skirt fabric-efficient?

    It sits in the High band — lower than 75% of Skirt patterns.

  • What commissions use Empire Princess Skirt?

    It is cut into 1 validated commission solutions.