Square Bodice
- Daywear +20
- Professional +20
- 2 variants
- 6 panels
- Medium fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Square Bodice 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
Every way the game cuts Square Bodice. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 16 panelsMedium fabric useNo bias cut
- Variant 28 panelsMedium fabric useNo bias cut2 more panels than variant 1More 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.
Style contribution
Raises 8 styles and lowers 1.
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
0.534
Compared with the other Bodice variants: Medium.
Lower than 28% of Bodice 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 Square Bodice
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 Square Bodice contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles it brings
Validated dresses cut from it
- Beloved OxIn a validated dressAs the Bodice+20 Professional, against a brief asking at least 60+20 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 25+10 Cute, against a brief asking at least 40
- Chilly OvertimeIn a validated dressAs the Bodice+20 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50+15 Warm, against a brief asking at least 50
- Reporter FionaIn a validated dressAs the Bodice+20 Professional, against a brief asking at least 75+20 Simple, against a brief asking at least 50
Briefs that ask for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Square Bodice raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Beloved Ox out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverSimilar patterns
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Princess Bodice6 panelsMediumSame styles, panels and fabric useCompare with Princess Bodice
- Princess Scoop Bodice6 panelsMediumSame styles, panels and fabric useCompare with Princess Scoop Bodice
- Princess V Bodice6 panelsMediumSame styles, panels and fabric useCompare with Princess V Bodice
- Single Keyhole Bodice6 panelsMedium−10 WorkwearCompare with Single Keyhole Bodice
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Square Bodice on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use in Dress BuilderPut Square Bodice in the Bodice slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Square BodiceTake it into the finder's comparison tray, then pick a second pattern to weigh against it.
- All Bodice 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bodice Front | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 31% of the cut |
| Bodice Back | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 29% of the cut |
| Bodice Front Left | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 11% of the cut |
| Bodice Front RIght | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 11% of the cut |
| Bodice Back Left | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 9% of the cut |
| Bodice Back Right | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 9% 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.
Open
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