
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.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
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
Need help with cutting?
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 workFabric 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
- 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.
Styles Empire Princess Skirt helps with
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 solverEmpire Princess Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Princess Skirt6 panelsHigh−15 Gothic−15 RomanticUnlocked earlierEmpire Princess Skirt vs Princess Skirt

- Dita Pencil Skirt6 panelsHigh+20 Risqué−15 RomanticUnlocked earlierEmpire Princess Skirt vs Dita Pencil Skirt

- Flare Skirt6 panelsHigh−15 Gothic−10 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierEmpire Princess Skirt vs Flare Skirt

- Curved Peplum Skirt11 panelsHigh−15 Gothic−15 Romantic5 more panelsUnlocked earlierEmpire Princess Skirt vs Curved Peplum Skirt

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Empire Princess Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Empire Princess Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Empire Princess Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Empire Princess 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.
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.
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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