
Open Shirt Collar
Open Shirt Collar is a Collar pattern that adds Casual +5, Professional +5, Daywear +3, Simple +3. It uses 1 panel and its fabric use is Low. It is available from the start of a save.
- Casual +5
- Professional +5
- One cut
- 1 panel
- Low fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Open 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 Open 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 Open Shirt Collar.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 1 piece
No piece in this cut names a position on the garment.
Need help with cutting?
Did you cut every Open Shirt Collar piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 1 of 1: Collar
What styles does Open 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 79% of Collar variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.086
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 Open Shirt Collar- Panels
- 1 panel
- 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 Open Shirt Collar is useful
What Open Shirt Collar contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Open Shirt Collar helps with
Commissions using Open Shirt Collar
No validated commission solution is cut from Open Shirt Collar. The briefs that ask for the styles it raises are the ones it can still contribute to.
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Open Shirt Collar raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Check what a dress costs and whether it passes, before you cut into anything.
Open in the solverOpen Shirt Collar alternatives
Other Collar patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Notched Shirt Collar3 panelsLow2 more panelsOpen Shirt Collar vs Notched Shirt Collar

- Scalloped Collar3 panelsLow+5 Cute+3 Playful2 more panelsUnlocked laterOpen Shirt Collar vs Scalloped Collar

- Dagger Collar1 panelLow+5 Gothic+3 WarmUnlocked laterOpen Shirt Collar vs Dagger Collar

- Oversized Wing Collar1 panelLow+5 Elegant+5 GlamourOpen Shirt Collar vs Oversized Wing Collar

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Open Shirt Collar on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Open Shirt Collar in Dress BuilderPut Open Shirt Collar in the Collar slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Open 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.
Open Shirt Collar questions
How do I unlock Open Shirt Collar?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Open Shirt Collar raise?
Its strongest contributions are Casual +5, Professional +5, Daywear +3, Simple +3.
How many pieces does Open Shirt Collar have?
It uses 1 panel.
Does Open Shirt Collar use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Open Shirt Collar fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Low band — lower than 79% of Collar patterns.
What commissions use Open Shirt Collar?
No validated solution uses it. The commissions that ask for the styles it raises can still make use of it.
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.
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