Gathered Ballgown Skirt
- Eveningwear +25
- Elegant +15
- One cut
- 6 panels
- High fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Gathered Ballgown 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 Gathered Ballgown Skirt.
Style contribution
Raises 8 styles and lowers 5.
- Eveningwear+25
- Elegant+15
- Formal+15
- Romantic+15
- Cute+10
- Elaborate+10
- Glamour+10
- Warm+10
- Casual−5
- Daywear−5
- Professional−5
- Simple−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
3,779
Compared with the other Skirt variants: High.
Lower than 79% 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
- 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 this page shows both as published.
How to unlock Gathered Ballgown 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 Gathered Ballgown Skirt contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles it brings
Validated dresses cut from it
No validated dress in this build is cut from Gathered Ballgown Skirt. Rather than list the briefs that would merely allow it, here are the briefs that ask for the styles it raises.
Briefs that ask for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Gathered Ballgown 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 solverSimilar patterns
Other Skirt patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Split Skirt11 panelsHigh+15 Glamour−15 Romantic5 more panelsUnlocked laterCompare with Split Skirt
- Petal Peplum Skirt12 panelsHigh+15 Flowers+15 Playful6 more panelsUnlocked laterCompare with Petal Peplum Skirt
- Basque Tiered Skirt24 panelsHigh+15 Elaborate+10 Cute18 more panelsUnlocked laterCompare with Basque Tiered Skirt
- Bow Ballgown Skirt11 panelsHigh+10 Playful+5 Cute5 more panels1 more variantsCompare with Bow Ballgown Skirt
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Gathered Ballgown Skirt on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use in Dress BuilderPut Gathered Ballgown Skirt in the Skirt slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Gathered Ballgown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed panel 1 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 19% of the cut |
| Unnamed panel 2 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 18% of the cut |
| Unnamed panel 3 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 18% of the cut |
| Unnamed panel 4 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 15% of the cut |
| Unnamed panel 5 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 15% of the cut |
| Unnamed panel 6 | Straight grain | Not bias cut | 14% 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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