Pencil Skirt
- Formal +20
- Professional +20
- One cut
- 6 panels
- Medium fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Pencil Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
Unlock
This pattern comes with the save. There is no relationship level or quest standing between you and cutting it.
Variants
The game ships one way to cut Pencil Skirt.
Style contribution
Raises 10 styles and lowers 4.
- Formal+20
- Professional+20
- Simple+20
- Daywear+15
- Elegant+15
- Risqué+15
- Casual+10
- Cool+10
- Gothic+10
- Uncomfortable+10
- Eclectic−5
- Eveningwear−5
- Playful−5
- Workwear−5
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
Estimated use
0.91
Compared with the other Skirt variants: Medium.
Lower than 12% of Skirt variants.
The export's own estimate. The game data records no unit for it, which is why the band and the percentile beside it are the parts to compare.
- Panels
- 6 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 this page shows both as published.
How to unlock Pencil Skirt
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?Where this pattern helps
What Pencil Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles it brings
Validated dresses cut from it
- Librarian ConferenceIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+20 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50+20 Formal, against a brief asking at least 25+15 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 30
- Poetic MuseIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+15 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 50+20 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50
- Proper LadyIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+20 Formal, against a brief asking at least 50+15 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+15 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 50
- Respectful FuneralIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+20 Formal, against a brief asking at least 50+15 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 40+20 Simple, against a brief asking at least 40
- A gift for VivianIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+10 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 40+15 Risqué, against a brief asking at least 40
- Detective DorothyIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+20 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 40
Briefs that ask for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Pencil Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Librarian Conference out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverSimilar patterns
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Dita Pencil Skirt6 panelsHigh−10 Uncomfortable+5 DaywearHigher fabric useUnlocked laterCompare with Dita Pencil Skirt
- Princess Skirt6 panelsHigh−15 Risqué+15 WorkwearHigher fabric useCompare with Princess Skirt
- Curved Peplum Skirt11 panelsHigh−15 Risqué−15 Simple5 more panelsHigher fabric useCompare with Curved Peplum Skirt
- Circle Peplum Skirt11 panelsHigh−15 Risqué−15 Simple5 more panelsHigher fabric useCompare with Circle Peplum Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Pencil Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use in Dress BuilderPut Pencil Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Pencil 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.
Show the 6 panelsHide the panels
Pattern construction
Every panel in the selected variant, largest share of the cut first.
| Panel | Grain | Bias cut | Share of the cut |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed panel 1 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 22% of the cut |
| Unnamed panel 2 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 21% of the cut |
| Skirt Left Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 15% of the cut |
| Skirt RIght Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 15% of the cut |
| Skirt Left Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 14% of the cut |
| Skirt Right back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 14% of the cut |
Shares are of this variant's own cut, not of the whole dress.
The systems behind this page
This page used four rules without teaching them. These pages own them.
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 estimate on this page comes from.
OpenProgression Unlocks
Which relationships and levels hand over which patterns, across the whole catalogue.
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