
Front Lace Stays
Front Lace Stays is a Bodice pattern that adds Cute +25, Gothic +25, Elaborate +20, Eveningwear +20. It uses 16 panels and its fabric use is High. It unlocks at relationship level 1 with Fiona.
- Cute +25
- Gothic +25
- One cut
- 16 panels
- High fabric use
- Fiona Lv. 1
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Front Lace Stays good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Complete Fiona's commissions and raise the relationship to level 1, and the pattern is yours.
How to unlock Front Lace Stays
Fiona · Relationship Lv. 1
- Character
- Fiona
- Relationship level
- 1
Complete Fiona's commissions and raise the relationship to level 1, and the pattern is yours.
One of 117 patterns a relationship level hands over.
Why is this still locked?Variants
The game ships one way to cut Front Lace Stays.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 16 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
16 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 Front Lace Stays piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 16 of 16: Bodice Stays Back, Bodice Eyelet Placket Left, and Bodice Eyelet Placket Right and 13 more
What styles does Front Lace Stays 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 Bodice variants: High.
Lower than 6% of Bodice variants.
- Estimated use
- 1.259
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 Front Lace Stays- Panels
- 16 panels
- Grain directions
- Mixed grain directions
- 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 Front Lace Stays is useful
What Front Lace Stays contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Front Lace Stays helps with
Commissions using Front Lace Stays
- Love LabyrinthUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+20 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Cute, against a brief asking at least 60+25 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 40

- Poetic MuseUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Cute, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 50+20 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50

- A gift for AliceUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Cute, against a brief asking at least 50

Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Front Lace Stays raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Love Labyrinth out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverFront Lace Stays alternatives
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Elevated Stays14 panelsHigh−20 Eveningwear−5 Gothic2 fewer panels1 more variantsFront Lace Stays vs Elevated Stays

- Front Lace Bodice13 panelsMedium+20 Eclectic−15 Elaborate3 fewer panelsLower fabric useFront Lace Stays vs Front Lace Bodice

- Dirndl13 panelsHigh−20 Eveningwear+20 Workwear3 fewer panelsUnlocked laterFront Lace Stays vs Dirndl

- Off-Shoulder Begonia Bodice9 panelsHigh−25 Gothic+15 Cool7 fewer panelsUnlocked laterFront Lace Stays vs Off-Shoulder Begonia Bodice

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Front Lace Stays on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Front Lace Stays in Dress BuilderPut Front Lace Stays in the Bodice slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Front Lace StaysTake 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.
Front Lace Stays questions
How do I unlock Front Lace Stays?
Fiona hands it over at relationship level 1.
Which styles does Front Lace Stays raise?
Its strongest contributions are Cute +25, Gothic +25, Elaborate +20, Eveningwear +20.
How many pieces does Front Lace Stays have?
It uses 16 panels.
Does Front Lace Stays use bias cut?
Yes — some of its panels are cut on the bias.
Is Front Lace Stays fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 6% of Bodice patterns.
What commissions use Front Lace Stays?
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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