Flare Skirt
Flare Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Daywear +20, Simple +20, Casual +15, Cute +15. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is High. It is available from the start of a save.
- Daywear +20
- Simple +20
- 2 variants
- 6 panels
- High fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Flare Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
This pattern comes with the save. There is no relationship level or quest standing between you and cutting it.
How to unlock Flare Skirt
Available from the start
This pattern comes with the save. There is no relationship level or quest standing between you and cutting it.
One of 40 patterns available from the first day of a save.
Why is this still locked?Variants
Every way the game cuts Flare Skirt. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 16 panelsHigh fabric use · 2.361No bias cut
- Variant 26 panelsHigh fabric use · 1.518No bias cutLess cloth than variant 1
Only the construction numbers change with the variant. The style contribution is declared on the pattern, so every cut brings the same of it.
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 Flare 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 Flare Skirt add?
Raises 10 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 48% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 2.361
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 Flare 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 Flare Skirt is useful
What Flare Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Flare Skirt helps with
Commissions using Flare Skirt
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Flare Skirt 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 solverFlare Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Circle Skirt4 panelsHigh−15 Workwear+5 Elegant2 fewer panelsFlare Skirt vs Circle Skirt
- Princess Skirt6 panelsHigh−15 Romantic−5 Cute1 fewer variantsFlare Skirt vs Princess Skirt
- Empire Princess Skirt6 panelsHigh+15 Gothic+10 Eveningwear1 fewer variantsUnlocked laterFlare Skirt vs Empire Princess Skirt
- Wrap Skirt3 panelsHigh−15 Professional−15 Workwear3 fewer panels2 more variantsFlare Skirt vs Wrap Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Flare Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Flare Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Flare Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Flare 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.
Flare Skirt questions
How do I unlock Flare Skirt?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Flare Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Daywear +20, Simple +20, Casual +15, Cute +15.
How many pieces does Flare Skirt have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Flare Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Flare Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 48% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Flare Skirt?
It is cut into 2 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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