Kimono Bodice
Kimono Bodice is a Bodice pattern that adds Eclectic +25, Eveningwear +20, Daywear +15, Elegant +15. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is Medium. It is available from the start of a save.
- Eclectic +25
- Eveningwear +20
- 2 variants
- 6 panels
- Medium fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Kimono Bodice 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 Kimono Bodice
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 Kimono Bodice. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 16 panelsMedium fabric use · 0.733No bias cut
- Variant 26 panelsMedium fabric use · 0.683No 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 Kimono Bodice piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 6 of 6: Bodice Back, Bodice Back Left, and Bodice Back Right and 3 more
What styles does Kimono Bodice add?
Raises 10 styles and lowers 2.
Raises
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 Bodice variants: Medium.
Lower than 53% of Bodice variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.683
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 Kimono Bodice- 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 Kimono Bodice is useful
What Kimono Bodice contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Kimono Bodice helps with
Commissions using Kimono Bodice
- Diplomatic OutreachUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+5 Elaborate, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 25+25 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 50+20 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 40
- Goat MediationUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 50
- Precious PigeonUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 60
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Kimono Bodice raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Diplomatic Outreach out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverKimono Bodice alternatives
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Kaftan Wrap Bodice8 panelsMedium+10 Formal+5 Cool2 more panelsUnlocked laterKimono Bodice vs Kaftan Wrap Bodice
- Plunging Neckline Bodice7 panelsMedium−15 Daywear+15 Formal1 more panels1 fewer variantsKimono Bodice vs Plunging Neckline Bodice
- Waterfall Bodice10 panelsMedium−15 Cool−10 Eveningwear4 more panels1 fewer variantsKimono Bodice vs Waterfall Bodice
- Sax Bodice9 panelsMedium+20 Romantic+10 Cute3 more panels1 fewer variantsKimono Bodice vs Sax Bodice
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Kimono Bodice on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Kimono Bodice in Dress BuilderPut Kimono Bodice in the Bodice slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Kimono BodiceTake 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.
Kimono Bodice questions
How do I unlock Kimono Bodice?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Kimono Bodice raise?
Its strongest contributions are Eclectic +25, Eveningwear +20, Daywear +15, Elegant +15.
How many pieces does Kimono Bodice have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Kimono Bodice use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Kimono Bodice fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Medium band — lower than 53% of Bodice patterns.
What commissions use Kimono Bodice?
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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