Strapless Bodice
Strapless Bodice is a Bodice pattern that adds Eveningwear +25, Simple +25, Cute +20, Elegant +20. It uses 8 panels and its fabric use is Medium. It is available from the start of a save.
- Eveningwear +25
- Simple +25
- 4 variants
- 8 panels
- Medium fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Strapless Bodice 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 Strapless 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?Variants
Every way the game cuts Strapless Bodice. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 16 panelsLow fabric use · 0.466No bias cut
- Variant 28 panelsMedium fabric use · 0.566No bias cut2 more panels than variant 1More cloth than variant 1
- Variant 38 panelsMedium fabric use · 0.617No bias cut2 more panels than variant 1More cloth than variant 1
- Variant 410 panelsMedium fabric use · 0.717No bias cut4 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.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 8 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
8 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 Strapless Bodice piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 8 of 8: Bodice Front, Bodice Back, and Bodice Front Left and 5 more
What styles does Strapless Bodice add?
Raises 10 styles and lowers 3.
Raises
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 Bodice variants: Medium.
Lower than 59% of Bodice variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.617
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 Strapless Bodice- Panels
- 8 panels
- Grain directions
- Mixed grain directions
- 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 Strapless Bodice is useful
What Strapless Bodice contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Strapless Bodice helps with
Commissions using Strapless Bodice
- Respectful FuneralUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+15 Formal, against a brief asking at least 50+20 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 40+25 Simple, against a brief asking at least 40
- A gift for PrudenceUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+20 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 50
- Poetic MuseUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+20 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+20 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50
- Spring FeteUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+20 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 60
- Aspiring FloristUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+20 Cute, against a brief asking at least 25
- Cat Amongst PigeonsUsed in a validated solutionAs the BodiceCut into this dress, but it answers none of the brief's declared requirements on its own.
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Strapless Bodice raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Respectful Funeral out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverStrapless Bodice alternatives
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Sweetheart Bodice6 panelsLow−5 Casual+5 Cute3 fewer variantsStrapless Bodice vs Sweetheart Bodice
- Heart Princess Bodice6 panelsLow−15 Romantic−15 Simple2 fewer variantsUnlocked laterStrapless Bodice vs Heart Princess Bodice
- Halter Neck Bodice5 panelsLow−25 Eveningwear+15 Eclectic1 fewer panelsUnlocked laterStrapless Bodice vs Halter Neck Bodice
- Katarina Bodice5 panelsLow−20 Simple−15 Cute1 fewer panels2 fewer variantsStrapless Bodice vs Katarina Bodice
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Strapless Bodice on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Strapless Bodice in Dress BuilderPut Strapless Bodice in the Bodice slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Strapless 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.
Strapless Bodice questions
How do I unlock Strapless Bodice?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Strapless Bodice raise?
Its strongest contributions are Eveningwear +25, Simple +25, Cute +20, Elegant +20.
How many pieces does Strapless Bodice have?
It uses 8 panels.
Does Strapless Bodice use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Strapless Bodice fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Medium band — lower than 59% of Bodice patterns.
What commissions use Strapless Bodice?
It is cut into 8 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
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