Kaftan Skirt
Kaftan Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Eclectic +25, Elegant +20, Eveningwear +20, Formal +15. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is High. It unlocks at relationship level 4 with Marie.
- Eclectic +25
- Elegant +20
- 2 variants
- 6 panels
- High fabric use
- Marie Lv. 4
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Kaftan Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Complete Marie's commissions and raise the relationship to level 4, and the pattern is yours.
How to unlock Kaftan Skirt
Marie · Relationship Lv. 4
- Character
- Marie
- Relationship level
- 4
Complete Marie's commissions and raise the relationship to level 4, and the pattern is yours.
One of 117 patterns a relationship level hands over.
Why is this still locked?Variants
Every way the game cuts Kaftan Skirt. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 16 panelsHigh fabric use · 2.122No bias cut
- Variant 26 panelsHigh fabric use · 2.122No bias cutSame panels and cloth as 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 Kaftan 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 Kaftan 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 55% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 2.122
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 Kaftan 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 Kaftan Skirt is useful
What Kaftan Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Kaftan Skirt helps with
Commissions using Kaftan Skirt
No validated commission solution is cut from Kaftan 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 Kaftan 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 solverKaftan Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Waterfall Skirt9 panelsHigh+10 Daywear−10 Risqué3 more panels1 fewer variantsKaftan Skirt vs Waterfall Skirt
- Tulip Hip Skirt10 panelsHigh−25 Eclectic+15 Glamour4 more panelsUnlocked earlierKaftan Skirt vs Tulip Hip Skirt
- Mermaid Skirt6 panelsHigh−25 Eclectic+25 GothicUnlocked earlierKaftan Skirt vs Mermaid Skirt
- Wavecrest Skirt11 panelsHigh+20 Romantic+15 Elaborate5 more panelsUnlocked earlierKaftan Skirt vs Wavecrest Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Kaftan Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Kaftan Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Kaftan Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Kaftan 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.
Kaftan Skirt questions
How do I unlock Kaftan Skirt?
Marie hands it over at relationship level 4.
Which styles does Kaftan Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Eclectic +25, Elegant +20, Eveningwear +20, Formal +15.
How many pieces does Kaftan Skirt have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Kaftan Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Kaftan Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 55% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Kaftan 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
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