Empire Waist Princess
Empire Waist Princess is a Bodice pattern that adds Daywear +25, Elegant +25, Professional +25, Simple +25. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is Medium. How to get it is not documented.
- 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.
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 Waist Princess
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 Waist Princess.
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 Waist Princess piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 6 of 6: Front, Back, and Bodice Front Left and 3 more
What styles does Empire Waist Princess add?
Raises 13 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 Bodice variants: Medium.
Lower than 71% of Bodice variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.54
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 Waist Princess- 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 Waist Princess is useful
What Empire Waist Princess contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Empire Waist Princess helps with
Commissions using Empire Waist Princess
- Sudden DepartureUsed in a validated solutionAs 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 RoseUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Simple, against a brief asking at least 50
- Artistic RetreatUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 75+10 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50
Other commissions asking 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 solverEmpire Waist Princess alternatives
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Princess Bodice6 panelsMedium−25 Elegant−25 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierEmpire Waist Princess vs Princess Bodice
- Princess Scoop Bodice6 panelsMedium−25 Elegant−25 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierEmpire Waist Princess vs Princess Scoop Bodice
- Princess V Bodice6 panelsMedium−25 Elegant−25 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierEmpire Waist Princess vs Princess V Bodice
- Square Bodice6 panelsMedium−25 Elegant−25 Eveningwear1 more variantsUnlocked earlierEmpire Waist Princess vs 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 Empire Waist Princess 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.
Empire Waist Princess questions
How do I unlock Empire Waist Princess?
The game data does not document a normal unlock source for this pattern.
Which styles does Empire Waist Princess raise?
Its strongest contributions are Daywear +25, Elegant +25, Professional +25, Simple +25.
How many pieces does Empire Waist Princess have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Empire Waist Princess use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Empire Waist Princess fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Medium band — lower than 71% of Bodice patterns.
What commissions use Empire Waist Princess?
It is cut into 3 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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