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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.

How complex is it?

Minimal

1 panel in the selected variant.

How much fabric does it use?

Low

79% of Collar variants use more cloth.

How do I unlock it?

Available from the start

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.

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 work

Fabric 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
Bias-cut panels
None
What bias cut means
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.

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Use this pattern

Everything above is about Open Shirt Collar on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.

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.