
Short Sleeve
Short Sleeve is a Sleeve pattern that adds Cool +10, Daywear +10, Professional +10, Casual +5. It uses 2 panels and its fabric use is Low. It unlocks at relationship level 1 with Rose.
- Cool +10
- Daywear +10
- 2 variants
- 2 panels
- Low fabric use
- Rose Lv. 1
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Short Sleeve good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Complete Rose's commissions and raise the relationship to level 1, and the pattern is yours.
How to unlock Short Sleeve
Rose · Relationship Lv. 1
- Character
- Rose
- Relationship level
- 1
Complete Rose's commissions and raise the relationship to level 1, and the pattern is yours.
One of 117 patterns a relationship level hands over.
Why is this still locked?Variants
Every way the game cuts Short Sleeve. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 14 panelsLow fabric use · 0.364No bias cut
- Variant 22 panelsLow fabric use · 0.232No bias cut2 fewer panels than variant 1Less cloth than variant 1
Only the construction numbers change with the variant. The style contribution is declared on the pattern, so every cut brings the same of it.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 2 pieces
Body position
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
Need help with cutting?
Did you cut every Short Sleeve piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 2 of 2: Right arm and Left arm
What styles does Short Sleeve 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 Sleeve variants: Low.
Lower than 81% of Sleeve variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.232
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 Short Sleeve- Panels
- 2 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 Short Sleeve is useful
What Short Sleeve contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Short Sleeve helps with
Commissions using Short Sleeve
No validated commission solution is cut from Short Sleeve. 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 Short Sleeve 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 solverShort Sleeve alternatives
Other Sleeve patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Short Puffed Sleeve4 panelsLow+10 Playful+5 CuteCut on the biasUnlocked earlierShort Sleeve vs Short Puffed Sleeve

- Cap Sleeve2 panelsLow−5 Cute−5 Daywear2 fewer panels1 fewer variantsShort Sleeve vs Cap Sleeve

- Petal Sleeve4 panelsLow+10 Cute−10 Professional1 fewer variantsUnlocked laterShort Sleeve vs Petal Sleeve

- Bracelet Sleeve2 panelsLow−10 Cool−5 Cute2 fewer panels1 fewer variantsShort Sleeve vs Bracelet Sleeve

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Short Sleeve on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Short Sleeve in Dress BuilderPut Short Sleeve in the Sleeve slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Short SleeveTake it into the finder's comparison tray, then pick a second pattern to weigh against it.
- All Sleeve patternsEvery pattern of the same part, with the finder's own filters and sort orders.
Short Sleeve questions
How do I unlock Short Sleeve?
Rose hands it over at relationship level 1.
Which styles does Short Sleeve raise?
Its strongest contributions are Cool +10, Daywear +10, Professional +10, Casual +5.
How many pieces does Short Sleeve have?
It uses 2 panels.
Does Short Sleeve use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Short Sleeve fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Low band — lower than 81% of Sleeve patterns.
What commissions use Short Sleeve?
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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