
Notched Shirt Collar
Notched Shirt Collar is a Collar pattern that adds Casual +5, Professional +5, Daywear +3, Simple +3. It uses 3 panels and its fabric use is Low. It is available from the start of a save.
- Casual +5
- Professional +5
- One cut
- 3 panels
- Low fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Notched Shirt Collar 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 Notched Shirt Collar
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
The game ships one way to cut Notched Shirt Collar.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 3 pieces
Body position
Back
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
3 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 Notched Shirt Collar piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 3 of 3: Collar Back, Collar Left, and Collar Right
What styles does Notched Shirt Collar add?
Raises 4 styles and lowers 0.
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 Collar variants: Low.
Lower than 50% of Collar variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.196
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 Notched Shirt Collar- Panels
- 3 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 Notched Shirt Collar is useful
What Notched Shirt Collar contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Notched Shirt Collar helps with
Commissions using Notched Shirt Collar
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Notched Shirt Collar raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Potential Fratricide out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverNotched Shirt Collar alternatives
Other Collar patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Open Shirt Collar1 panelLow2 fewer panelsNotched Shirt Collar vs Open Shirt Collar

- Scalloped Collar3 panelsLow+5 Cute+3 PlayfulUnlocked laterNotched Shirt Collar vs Scalloped Collar

- Dagger Collar1 panelLow+5 Gothic+3 Warm2 fewer panelsUnlocked laterNotched Shirt Collar vs Dagger Collar

- Oversized Wing Collar1 panelLow+5 Elegant+5 Glamour2 fewer panelsNotched Shirt Collar vs Oversized Wing Collar

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Notched Shirt Collar on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Notched Shirt Collar in Dress BuilderPut Notched Shirt Collar in the Collar slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Notched Shirt CollarTake it into the finder's comparison tray, then pick a second pattern to weigh against it.
- All Collar patternsEvery pattern of the same part, with the finder's own filters and sort orders.
Notched Shirt Collar questions
How do I unlock Notched Shirt Collar?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Notched Shirt Collar raise?
Its strongest contributions are Casual +5, Professional +5, Daywear +3, Simple +3.
How many pieces does Notched Shirt Collar have?
It uses 3 panels.
Does Notched Shirt Collar use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Notched Shirt Collar fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Low band — lower than 50% of Collar patterns.
What commissions use Notched Shirt Collar?
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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