
Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt
- Eclectic +25
- Daywear +15
- One cut
- 30 panels
- High fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Puffy Gathered Tiered 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 Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt.
Style contribution
Raises 7 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
Estimated use
3.78
Compared with the other Skirt variants: High.
Lower than 82% 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
- 30 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 Puffy Gathered Tiered 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 Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles it brings
Validated dresses cut from it
No validated dress in this build is cut from Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt. Rather than list the briefs that would merely allow it, here are the briefs that ask for the styles it raises.
Briefs that ask for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt 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 solverSimilar patterns
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Straight Gathered Tiered Skirt18 panelsHigh−5 Eclectic12 fewer panels1 more variantsUnlocked laterCompare with Straight Gathered Tiered Skirt

- Godet Skirt16 panelsHigh+20 Eveningwear+15 Formal14 fewer panelsUnlocked laterCompare with Godet Skirt

- Handkerchief Godet Skirt16 panelsHigh+20 Glamour+15 Eveningwear14 fewer panelsUnlocked laterCompare with Handkerchief Godet Skirt

- Gatsby Skirt27 panelsHigh+20 Glamour−15 Daywear3 fewer panelsUnlocked laterCompare with Gatsby Skirt

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use in Dress BuilderPut Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Puffy Gathered Tiered 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 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skirt Tier 4 Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 6% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 4 Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 4 Left Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 4 Right Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 3 Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 4 Left Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 4 Right Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 3 Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 3 Left Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 3 Right Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 5% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 3 Left Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 4% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 3 Right Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 4% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 2 Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 4% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 2 Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 4% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 2 Left Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 4% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 2 Right Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 4% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 1 Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 3% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 2 Left Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 3% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 2 Right Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 3% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 1 Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 3% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 1 Left Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 3% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 1 Right Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 3% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 1 Left Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 3% of the cut |
| Skirt Tier 1 Right Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 3% of the cut |
| Skirt Waist Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 0% of the cut |
| Skirt Waist Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 0% of the cut |
| Skirt Waist Left Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 0% of the cut |
| Skirt Waist Left Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 0% of the cut |
| Skirt Waist Right Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 0% of the cut |
| Skirt Waist Right Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 0% 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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