
Mother of Pearl Skirt
Mother of Pearl Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Cute +20, Eveningwear +20, Playful +20, Elaborate +15. It uses 12 panels and its fabric use is High. It unlocks at relationship level 1 with Alice.
- Cute +20
- Eveningwear +20
- 2 variants
- 12 panels
- High fabric use
- Alice Lv. 1
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Mother of Pearl Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Complete Alice's commissions and raise the relationship to level 1, and the pattern is yours.
How to unlock Mother of Pearl Skirt
Alice · Relationship Lv. 1
- Character
- Alice
- Relationship level
- 1
Complete Alice'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
Every way the game cuts Mother of Pearl Skirt. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 112 panelsHigh fabric use · 5.154No bias cut
- Variant 212 panelsHigh fabric use · 3.586No 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.
- 12 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
12 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 Mother of Pearl Skirt piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 12 of 12: Overskirt Back, Overskirt Front, and Overskirt Left and 9 more
What styles does Mother of Pearl Skirt add?
Raises 8 styles and lowers 4.
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 21% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 3.586
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 Mother of Pearl Skirt- Panels
- 12 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 Mother of Pearl Skirt is useful
What Mother of Pearl Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Mother of Pearl Skirt helps with
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Mother of Pearl Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Poetic Muse out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverMother of Pearl Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Bow Ballgown Skirt11 panelsHigh+20 Formal−15 Gothic1 fewer panelsUnlocked laterMother of Pearl Skirt vs Bow Ballgown Skirt

- Wavecrest Skirt11 panelsHigh+20 Formal+15 Eclectic1 fewer panelsMother of Pearl Skirt vs Wavecrest Skirt

- Poinsetta Skirt18 panelsHigh−20 Playful+15 Formal6 more panelsUnlocked laterMother of Pearl Skirt vs Poinsetta Skirt

- Frill Skirt8 panelsHigh−15 Gothic+10 Daywear4 fewer panels1 fewer variantsMother of Pearl Skirt vs Frill Skirt

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Mother of Pearl Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Mother of Pearl Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Mother of Pearl Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Mother of Pearl 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.
Mother of Pearl Skirt questions
How do I unlock Mother of Pearl Skirt?
Alice hands it over at relationship level 1.
Which styles does Mother of Pearl Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Cute +20, Eveningwear +20, Playful +20, Elaborate +15.
How many pieces does Mother of Pearl Skirt have?
It uses 12 panels.
Does Mother of Pearl Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Mother of Pearl Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 21% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Mother of Pearl Skirt?
It is cut into 1 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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