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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.

How complex is it?

Extensive

16 panels in the selected variant.

How much fabric does it use?

High

6% of Bodice variants use more cloth.

How do I unlock it?

Fiona · Relationship Lv. 1

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

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 work

Fabric 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
Bias-cut panels
2 on the bias
What bias cut means
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.

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 solver

Use this pattern

Everything above is about Front Lace Stays on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.

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.