
Tulip Hip Skirt
Tulip Hip Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Elegant +25, Eveningwear +25, Glamour +25, Formal +20. It uses 10 panels and its fabric use is High. It unlocks at relationship level 3 with Prudence.
- Elegant +25
- Eveningwear +25
- 2 variants
- 10 panels
- High fabric use
- Prudence Lv. 3
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Tulip Hip Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Complete Prudence's commissions and raise the relationship to level 3, and the pattern is yours.
How to unlock Tulip Hip Skirt
Prudence · Relationship Lv. 3
- Character
- Prudence
- Relationship level
- 3
Complete Prudence's commissions and raise the relationship to level 3, 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 Tulip Hip Skirt. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 110 panelsHigh fabric use · 2.329No bias cut
- Variant 212 panelsHigh fabric use · 2.698No 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.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 10 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
10 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 Tulip Hip Skirt piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 10 of 10: Skirt Front, Skirt Back, and Skirt Left Front and 7 more
What styles does Tulip Hip Skirt add?
Raises 9 styles and lowers 4.
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 Skirt variants: High.
Lower than 51% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 2.329
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 Tulip Hip Skirt- Panels
- 10 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 Tulip Hip Skirt is useful
What Tulip Hip Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Tulip Hip Skirt helps with
Commissions using Tulip Hip Skirt
No validated commission solution is cut from Tulip Hip 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 Tulip Hip 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 solverTulip Hip Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Bow Ballgown Skirt11 panelsHigh+15 Cute−15 Glamour1 more panelsUnlocked laterTulip Hip Skirt vs Bow Ballgown Skirt

- Mermaid Skirt6 panelsHigh+25 Gothic+15 Risqué4 fewer panelsUnlocked earlierTulip Hip Skirt vs Mermaid Skirt

- Split Skirt11 panelsHigh−15 Romantic+10 Elaborate1 more panels1 fewer variantsTulip Hip Skirt vs Split Skirt

- Wavecrest Skirt11 panelsHigh−25 Glamour+15 Daywear1 more panelsUnlocked earlierTulip Hip Skirt vs Wavecrest Skirt

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Tulip Hip Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Tulip Hip Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Tulip Hip Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Tulip Hip 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.
Tulip Hip Skirt questions
How do I unlock Tulip Hip Skirt?
Prudence hands it over at relationship level 3.
Which styles does Tulip Hip Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Elegant +25, Eveningwear +25, Glamour +25, Formal +20.
How many pieces does Tulip Hip Skirt have?
It uses 10 panels.
Does Tulip Hip Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Tulip Hip Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the High band — lower than 51% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Tulip Hip 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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