Widow Skirt
Widow Skirt is a Skirt pattern that adds Gothic +25, Risqué +25, Cool +20, Glamour +20. It uses 1 panel and its fabric use is Low. How to get it is not documented.
- Gothic +25
- Risqué +25
- One cut
- 1 panel
- Low fabric use
- Unlock source not documented
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Widow Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Part, panels and style contributions are published for this pattern. Where it comes from is not.
How to unlock Widow Skirt
Unlock source not documented
Part, panels and style contributions are published for this pattern. Where it comes from is not.
One of 21 patterns whose acquisition the game data does not document.
Why is this still locked?Variants
The game ships one way to cut Widow Skirt.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 1 piece
No piece in this cut names a position on the garment.
Need help with cutting?
Did you cut every Widow Skirt piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 1 of 1: Unnamed piece 1
What styles does Widow Skirt add?
Raises 6 styles and lowers 1.
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: Low.
Lower than 100% of Skirt variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.05
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 Widow Skirt- Panels
- 1 panel
- 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 Widow Skirt is useful
What Widow Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Widow Skirt helps with
Commissions using Widow Skirt
No validated commission solution is cut from Widow 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 Widow 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 solverWidow Skirt alternatives
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Junon Skirt1 panelLow+25 Elaborate+25 EveningwearWidow Skirt vs Junon Skirt
- Handkerchief Hem Skirt1 panelLow−25 Risqué+20 CasualWidow Skirt vs Handkerchief Hem Skirt
- Venus Skirt1 panelLow+25 Elaborate+25 EveningwearWidow Skirt vs Venus Skirt
- Evie Skirt1 panelLow+25 Professional−25 RisquéWidow Skirt vs Evie Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Widow Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Widow Skirt in Dress BuilderPut Widow Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Widow 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.
Widow Skirt questions
How do I unlock Widow Skirt?
The game data does not document a normal unlock source for this pattern.
Which styles does Widow Skirt raise?
Its strongest contributions are Gothic +25, Risqué +25, Cool +20, Glamour +20.
How many pieces does Widow Skirt have?
It uses 1 panel.
Does Widow Skirt use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Widow Skirt fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Low band — lower than 100% of Skirt patterns.
What commissions use Widow 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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