
One Shoulder Bodice
One Shoulder Bodice is a Bodice pattern that adds Eveningwear +20, Formal +20, Cool +15, Elegant +15. It uses 2 panels and its fabric use is Low. It is available from the start of a save.
- Eveningwear +20
- Formal +20
- 2 variants
- 2 panels
- Low fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is One Shoulder 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 One Shoulder 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 One Shoulder Bodice. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 12 panelsLow fabric use · 0.3352 on the bias
- Variant 22 panelsLow fabric use · 0.3352 on the biasSame 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.
- 2 pieces
- All cut on the bias
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
Need help with cutting?
Did you cut every One Shoulder Bodice piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 2 of 2: Back and Front
What styles does One Shoulder Bodice add?
Raises 7 styles and lowers 3.
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: Low.
Lower than 89% of Bodice variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.335
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 One Shoulder Bodice- Panels
- 2 panels
- Grain directions
- On the bias
- 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 One Shoulder Bodice is useful
What One Shoulder Bodice contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles One Shoulder Bodice helps with
Commissions using One Shoulder Bodice
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles One Shoulder Bodice raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Fierce Funeral out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverOne Shoulder Bodice alternatives
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Wrap Bodice3 panelsLow+20 Casual+20 Daywear1 more panelsUnlocked laterOne Shoulder Bodice vs Wrap Bodice

- Ruched Sweetheart Bodice2 panelsLow+15 Glamour+15 RomanticUnlocked laterOne Shoulder Bodice vs Ruched Sweetheart Bodice

- Heart Princess Bodice6 panelsLow+15 Cute+10 Daywear4 more panelsUnlocked laterOne Shoulder Bodice vs Heart Princess Bodice

- Katarina Bodice5 panelsLow+15 Daywear+10 Casual3 more panelsUnlocked laterOne Shoulder Bodice vs Katarina Bodice

Use this pattern
Everything above is about One Shoulder Bodice on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use One Shoulder Bodice in Dress BuilderPut One Shoulder Bodice in the Bodice slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare One Shoulder 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.
One Shoulder Bodice questions
How do I unlock One Shoulder Bodice?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does One Shoulder Bodice raise?
Its strongest contributions are Eveningwear +20, Formal +20, Cool +15, Elegant +15.
How many pieces does One Shoulder Bodice have?
It uses 2 panels.
Does One Shoulder Bodice use bias cut?
Yes — some of its panels are cut on the bias.
Is One Shoulder Bodice fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Low band — lower than 89% of Bodice patterns.
What commissions use One Shoulder Bodice?
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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