Pencil Skirt
Pencil Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Formal +20, Professional +20, Simple +20, Daywear +15. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is Medium. It is available from the start of a save.
- 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.
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 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?Variants
The game ships one way to cut Pencil Skirt.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 6 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
6 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 Pencil Skirt piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 6 of 6: Skirt front, Skirt back, and Skirt Left Front and 3 more
What styles does Pencil Skirt add?
Raises 10 styles and lowers 4.
Raises
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 Skirt variants: Medium.
Lower than 88% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.91
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 Pencil Skirt- 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 both are shown as published.
Where Pencil Skirt is useful
What Pencil Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Pencil Skirt helps with
Commissions using Pencil Skirt
- Librarian ConferenceUsed in a validated solutionAs 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 MuseUsed in a validated solutionAs 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 LadyUsed in a validated solutionAs 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 FuneralUsed in a validated solutionAs 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 VivianUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+10 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 40+15 Risqué, against a brief asking at least 40
- Detective DorothyUsed in a validated solutionAs the Skirt+20 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 40
Other commissions asking 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 solverPencil Skirt alternatives
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 laterPencil Skirt vs Dita Pencil Skirt
- Princess Skirt6 panelsHigh−15 Risqué+15 WorkwearHigher fabric usePencil Skirt vs Princess Skirt
- Curved Peplum Skirt11 panelsHigh−15 Risqué−15 Simple5 more panelsHigher fabric usePencil Skirt vs Curved Peplum Skirt
- Circle Peplum Skirt11 panelsHigh−15 Risqué−15 Simple5 more panelsHigher fabric usePencil Skirt vs 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 Pencil Skirt 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.
Pencil Skirt questions
How do I unlock Pencil Skirt?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Pencil Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Formal +20, Professional +20, Simple +20, Daywear +15.
How many pieces does Pencil Skirt have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Pencil Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Pencil Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Medium band — lower than 88% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Pencil Skirt?
It is cut into 12 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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