Straight Long Skirt
Straight Long Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Professional +25, Simple +25, Daywear +20, Casual +10. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is High. It is available from the start of a save.
- Professional +25
- Simple +25
- One cut
- 6 panels
- High fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Straight Long 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 Straight Long 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 Straight Long 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 Straight Long 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 Straight Long Skirt add?
Raises 8 styles and lowers 2.
Lowers
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 81% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 1.467
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 Straight Long 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 Straight Long Skirt is useful
What Straight Long Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Straight Long Skirt helps with
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Straight Long Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Reporter Fiona out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverStraight Long Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Princess Skirt6 panelsHigh+15 Formal+10 CuteStraight Long Skirt vs Princess Skirt
- Dita Pencil Skirt6 panelsHigh+25 Formal+20 RisquéUnlocked laterStraight Long Skirt vs Dita Pencil Skirt
- Waistcoat Skirt9 panelsHigh+15 Cute+15 Eclectic3 more panelsUnlocked laterStraight Long Skirt vs Waistcoat Skirt
- Curved Peplum Skirt11 panelsHigh+20 Formal−20 Simple5 more panelsUnlocked laterStraight Long Skirt vs Curved Peplum Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Straight Long Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Straight Long Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Straight Long Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Straight Long 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.
Straight Long Skirt questions
How do I unlock Straight Long Skirt?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Straight Long Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Professional +25, Simple +25, Daywear +20, Casual +10.
How many pieces does Straight Long Skirt have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Straight Long Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Straight Long Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 81% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Straight Long Skirt?
It is cut into 1 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
Cutting this one in a gradient, a stripe or a print? Panels that sit side by side have to line up. How to match fabric patterns
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