
Gatsby Skirt
Gatsby Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Elaborate +20, Glamour +20, Eclectic +15, Eveningwear +15. It uses 27 panels and its fabric use is High. It unlocks at relationship level 2 with Edith.
- Elaborate +20
- Glamour +20
- One cut
- 27 panels
- High fabric use
- Edith Lv. 2
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Gatsby Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Complete Edith's commissions and raise the relationship to level 2, and the pattern is yours.
How to unlock Gatsby Skirt
Edith · Relationship Lv. 2
- Character
- Edith
- Relationship level
- 2
Complete Edith's commissions and raise the relationship to level 2, 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 Gatsby Skirt.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 27 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
27 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 Gatsby Skirt piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 27 of 27: Skirt Belt Back, Skirt Belt Front, and Skirt Belt Left Back and 24 more
What styles does Gatsby Skirt add?
Raises 8 styles and lowers 2.
Lowers
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 12% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 4.877
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 Gatsby Skirt- Panels
- 27 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 Gatsby Skirt is useful
What Gatsby Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Gatsby Skirt helps with
Commissions using Gatsby Skirt
No validated commission solution is cut from Gatsby Skirt. The briefs that ask for the styles it raises are the ones it can still contribute to.
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Gatsby Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Check what a dress costs and whether it passes, before you cut into anything.
Open in the solverGatsby Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Basque Tiered Skirt24 panelsHigh+20 Cute+20 Romantic3 fewer panelsGatsby Skirt vs Basque Tiered Skirt

- Handkerchief Godet Skirt16 panelsHigh+15 Daywear+12 Gothic11 fewer panelsUnlocked laterGatsby Skirt vs Handkerchief Godet Skirt

- Godet Skirt16 panelsHigh−10 Cool+10 Daywear11 fewer panelsUnlocked earlierGatsby Skirt vs Godet Skirt

- Viper Skirt21 panelsHigh+25 Gothic−15 Eclectic6 fewer panelsGatsby Skirt vs Viper Skirt

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Gatsby Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Gatsby Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Gatsby Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Gatsby 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.
Gatsby Skirt questions
How do I unlock Gatsby Skirt?
Edith hands it over at relationship level 2.
Which styles does Gatsby Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Elaborate +20, Glamour +20, Eclectic +15, Eveningwear +15.
How many pieces does Gatsby Skirt have?
It uses 27 panels.
Does Gatsby Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Gatsby Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 12% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Gatsby Skirt?
No validated solution uses it. The commissions that ask for the styles it raises can still make use of it.
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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