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Waterfall Skirt

Waterfall Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Eclectic +25, Elegant +20, Eveningwear +20, Formal +15. It uses 9 panels and its fabric use is High. It unlocks at relationship level 3 with Dorothy.

  • Eclectic +25
  • Elegant +20
  • One cut
  • 9 panels
  • High fabric use
  • Dorothy Lv. 3

Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.

What is Waterfall Skirt good for?

Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.

How complex is it?

Extensive

9 panels in the selected variant.

How much fabric does it use?

High

45% of Skirt variants use more cloth.

How do I unlock it?

Dorothy · Relationship Lv. 3

Complete Dorothy's commissions and raise the relationship to level 3, and the pattern is yours.

How to unlock Waterfall Skirt

Dorothy · Relationship Lv. 3

Character
Dorothy
Relationship level
3

Complete Dorothy'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

The game ships one way to cut Waterfall Skirt.

Pattern pieces

Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.

  • 9 pieces

Body position

Front

Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.

9 pieces means a print, a stripe or a gradient has to be lined up across the seams. Matching a repeating print

Did you cut every Waterfall Skirt piece?

Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.

Missing 9 of 9: Skirt Front Left, Skirt back, and Skirt Left Front and 6 more

What styles does Waterfall Skirt add?

Raises 8 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 work

Fabric use & construction

Compared with the other Skirt variants: High.

Lower than 45% of Skirt variants.

Estimated use
2.476

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.

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Panels
9 panels
Bias-cut panels
None
What bias cut means
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 Waterfall Skirt is useful

What Waterfall Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.

Styles Waterfall Skirt helps with

Commissions using Waterfall Skirt

No validated commission solution is cut from Waterfall 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 Waterfall 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.

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Use this pattern

Everything above is about Waterfall Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.

Waterfall Skirt questions

  • How do I unlock Waterfall Skirt?

    Dorothy hands it over at relationship level 3.

  • Which styles does Waterfall Skirt raise?

    Its strongest contributions are Eclectic +25, Elegant +20, Eveningwear +20, Formal +15.

  • How many pieces does Waterfall Skirt have?

    It uses 9 panels.

  • Does Waterfall Skirt use bias cut?

    No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.

  • Is Waterfall Skirt fabric-efficient?

    It sits in the High band — lower than 45% of Skirt patterns.

  • What commissions use Waterfall Skirt?

    No validated solution uses it. The commissions that ask for the styles it raises can still make use of it.