Empire Waist Princess
- Daywear +25
- Elegant +25
- One cut
- 6 panels
- Medium fabric use
- Unlock source not documented
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Empire Waist Princess good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
Unlock
The game data records no acquisition route for this pattern. Its part, panels and style contributions are real; how a player gets it is not recorded, so this page states that instead of guessing.
Variants
The game ships one way to cut Empire Waist Princess.
Style contribution
Raises 13 styles and lowers 0.
- Daywear+25
- Elegant+25
- Professional+25
- Simple+25
- Workwear+25
- Eveningwear+20
- Formal+20
- Glamour+20
- Cute+15
- Warm+15
- Casual+10
- Gothic+10
- Romantic+10
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
Estimated use
0.54
Compared with the other Bodice variants: Medium.
Lower than 29% of Bodice variants.
The export's own estimate. The game data records no unit for it, which is why the band and the percentile beside it are the parts to compare.
- 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 this page shows both as published.
How to unlock Empire Waist Princess
Unlock route not documented
The game data records no acquisition route for this pattern. Its part, panels and style contributions are real; how a player gets it is not recorded, so this page states that instead of guessing.
One of 21 patterns whose acquisition the game data does not document.
Why is this still locked?Where this pattern helps
What Empire Waist Princess contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles it brings
Validated dresses cut from it
- Sudden DepartureIn a validated dressAs the Bodice+15 Warm, against a brief asking at least 25+25 Simple, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Workwear, against a brief asking at least 50
- A gift for RoseIn a validated dressAs the Bodice+25 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Simple, against a brief asking at least 50
- Artistic RetreatIn a validated dressAs the Bodice+25 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 75+10 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50
Briefs that ask for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Empire Waist Princess raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Sudden Departure out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverSimilar patterns
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Princess Bodice6 panelsMedium−25 Elegant−25 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierCompare with Princess Bodice
- Princess Scoop Bodice6 panelsMedium−25 Elegant−25 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierCompare with Princess Scoop Bodice
- Princess V Bodice6 panelsMedium−25 Elegant−25 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierCompare with Princess V Bodice
- Square Bodice6 panelsMedium−25 Elegant−25 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierCompare with Square Bodice
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Empire Waist Princess on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use in Dress BuilderPut Empire Waist Princess in the Bodice slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Empire Waist PrincessTake it into the finder's comparison tray, then pick a second pattern to weigh against it.
- All Bodice patternsEvery pattern of the same part, with the finder's own filters and sort orders.
Show the 6 panelsHide the panels
Pattern construction
Every panel in the selected variant, largest share of the cut first.
| Panel | Grain | Bias cut | Share of the cut |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed panel 1 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 39% of the cut |
| Unnamed panel 2 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 38% of the cut |
| Bodice Front Left | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 6% of the cut |
| Bodice Front RIght | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 6% of the cut |
| Bodice Back Left | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Bodice Back Right | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
Shares are of this variant's own cut, not of the whole dress.
The systems behind this page
This page used four rules without teaching them. These pages own them.
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 estimate on this page comes from.
OpenProgression Unlocks
Which relationships and levels hand over which patterns, across the whole catalogue.
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