Bias Cut Skirt
- Elegant +25
- Eveningwear +25
- One cut
- 6 panels
- High fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Bias Cut Skirt good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
Unlock
This pattern comes with the save. There is no relationship level or quest standing between you and cutting it.
Variants
The game ships one way to cut Bias Cut Skirt.
Style contribution
Raises 8 styles and lowers 2.
- Elegant+25
- Eveningwear+25
- Formal+20
- Simple+20
- Glamour+15
- Eclectic+10
- Risqué+10
- Warm+10
- Professional−5
- Workwear−5
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
Estimated use
1,907
Compared with the other Skirt variants: High.
Lower than 33% of Skirt variants.
The export's own estimate. The game data records no unit for it, which is why the band and the percentile beside it are the parts to compare.
- Panels
- 6 panels
- Grain directions
- On the bias
- 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 this page shows both as published.
How to unlock Bias Cut Skirt
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?Where this pattern helps
What Bias Cut Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles it brings
Validated dresses cut from it
- Gala SupporterIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+15 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 40+10 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 50
- A gift for MarieIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+10 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50
- Exotic MothIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+25 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+15 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 50
- Flamboyant FuneralIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+25 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 65+15 Glamour, against a brief asking at least 40
- Graveside VisitIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+10 Warm, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50
- Goat MediationIn a validated dressAs the Skirt+10 Eclectic, against a brief asking at least 50
Briefs that ask for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Bias Cut Skirt raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Gala Supporter out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverSimilar patterns
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Waterfall Skirt9 panelsHigh+15 Eclectic+10 Daywear3 more panelsUnlocked laterCompare with Waterfall Skirt
- Kaftan Skirt6 panelsHigh+15 Eclectic−10 Simple1 more variantsUnlocked laterCompare with Kaftan Skirt
- Split Skirt11 panelsHigh−25 Simple+20 Elaborate5 more panelsUnlocked laterCompare with Split Skirt
- Gathered Ballgown Skirt6 panelsHigh−25 Simple+15 RomanticCompare with Gathered Ballgown Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Bias Cut Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use in Dress BuilderPut Bias Cut Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Bias Cut 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.
Show the 6 panelsHide the panels
Pattern construction
Every panel in the selected variant, largest share of the cut first.
| Panel | Grain | Bias cut | Share of the cut |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skirt Front | On the bias | Bias cut | 20% of the cut |
| Skirt Back | On the bias | Bias cut | 17% of the cut |
| Skirt Left Back | On the bias | Bias cut | 16% of the cut |
| Skirt Right back | On the bias | Bias cut | 16% of the cut |
| Skirt Left Front | On the bias | Bias cut | 15% of the cut |
| Skirt RIght Front | On the bias | Bias cut | 15% of the cut |
Shares are of this variant's own cut, not of the whole dress.
The systems behind this page
This page used four rules without teaching them. These pages own them.
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 estimate on this page comes from.
OpenProgression Unlocks
Which relationships and levels hand over which patterns, across the whole catalogue.
Open
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