Mermaid Skirt
Mermaid Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Eveningwear +25, Glamour +25, Gothic +25, Risqué +25. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is High. It is available from the start of a save.
- Eveningwear +25
- Glamour +25
- 2 variants
- 6 panels
- High fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Mermaid Skirt 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 Mermaid Skirt
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 Mermaid Skirt. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 16 panelsHigh fabric use · 2.265No bias cut
- Variant 212 panelsHigh fabric use · 2.565No bias cut6 more panels than variant 1More 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 Mermaid 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 Mermaid Skirt add?
Raises 9 styles and lowers 5.
Raises
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 53% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 2.265
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 Mermaid 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 Mermaid Skirt is useful
What Mermaid Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Mermaid Skirt helps with
Commissions using Mermaid Skirt
- Raven RisingUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+25 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 40+25 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 50+15 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 50
- New AestheticUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+25 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 50
- Poetic MuseUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+15 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 50+15 Uncomfortable, against a brief asking at least 30
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Mermaid Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Raven Rising out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverMermaid Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Tulip Hip Skirt10 panelsHigh−25 Gothic−15 Risqué4 more panelsUnlocked laterMermaid Skirt vs Tulip Hip Skirt
- Belladonna Skirt12 panelsHigh−15 Uncomfortable+5 Casual6 more panels1 fewer variantsMermaid Skirt vs Belladonna Skirt
- Corset Skirt12 panelsHigh−15 Eveningwear+15 Professional6 more panels1 fewer variantsMermaid Skirt vs Corset Skirt
- Kaftan Skirt6 panelsHigh+25 Eclectic−25 GothicUnlocked laterMermaid Skirt vs Kaftan Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Mermaid Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Mermaid Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Mermaid Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Mermaid 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.
Mermaid Skirt questions
How do I unlock Mermaid Skirt?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Mermaid Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Eveningwear +25, Glamour +25, Gothic +25, Risqué +25.
How many pieces does Mermaid Skirt have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Mermaid Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Mermaid Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 53% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Mermaid Skirt?
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
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