
Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt
Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Eclectic +25, Daywear +15, Romantic +15, Casual +10. It uses 30 panels and its fabric use is High. It is available from the start of a save.
- 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.
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 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?Variants
The game ships one way to cut Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 30 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
30 pieces means a print, a stripe or a gradient has to be lined up across the seams. Matching a repeating print
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Did you cut every Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 30 of 30: Skirt Tier 1 Back, Skirt Tier 1 Front, and Skirt Tier 1 Right Front and 27 more
What styles does Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt add?
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
Compared with the other Skirt variants: High.
Lower than 18% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 3.78
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 Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt- 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 both are shown as published.
Where Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt is useful
What Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt helps with
Commissions using Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt
No validated commission solution is cut from Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt. 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 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 solverPuffy Gathered Tiered Skirt alternatives
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 laterPuffy Gathered Tiered Skirt vs Straight Gathered Tiered Skirt

- Godet Skirt16 panelsHigh+20 Eveningwear+15 Formal14 fewer panelsUnlocked laterPuffy Gathered Tiered Skirt vs Godet Skirt

- Handkerchief Godet Skirt16 panelsHigh+20 Glamour+15 Eveningwear14 fewer panelsUnlocked laterPuffy Gathered Tiered Skirt vs Handkerchief Godet Skirt

- Gatsby Skirt27 panelsHigh+20 Glamour−15 Daywear3 fewer panelsUnlocked laterPuffy Gathered Tiered Skirt vs 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 Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt 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.
Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt questions
How do I unlock Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Eclectic +25, Daywear +15, Romantic +15, Casual +10.
How many pieces does Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt have?
It uses 30 panels.
Does Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 18% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Puffy Gathered Tiered Skirt?
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.
Open
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