
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.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
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
Need help with cutting?
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 workFabric 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.
Calculate fabric use for Waterfall Skirt- Panels
- 9 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 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.
Open in the solverWaterfall Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Godet Skirt16 panelsHigh+15 Elaborate+10 Gothic7 more panelsUnlocked earlierWaterfall Skirt vs Godet Skirt

- Kaftan Skirt6 panelsHigh−10 Daywear+10 Risqué3 fewer panels1 more variantsWaterfall Skirt vs Kaftan Skirt

- Handkerchief Godet Skirt16 panelsHigh+15 Elaborate+12 Gothic7 more panelsWaterfall Skirt vs Handkerchief Godet Skirt

- Split Skirt11 panelsHigh−25 Eclectic+20 Elaborate2 more panelsUnlocked earlierWaterfall Skirt vs Split Skirt

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Waterfall Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Waterfall Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Waterfall Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Waterfall 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.
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.
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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