(-and honestly considering drakor’s sister is a half-orc and like. is probably like 5’10"ish if she’s not too much younger than drakor, 3 metres might be too little fabric for a proper long dress.)
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cause you got to think of it this way: how long would her legs be? then you have to have enough fabric to cut that length like five-six times to wrap around her.
granted you wouldn’t go down to the floor probably, but if it’s a long dress it’s gonna be likely 3/4s ish
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(he’s adopted)
(she’s like 5’6")
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(okay so: legs compose a bit less than half of an (average) human body… let’s say 3/8ths. and lets say if the dress is to be long its… 3/4ths of the legs. 5’6 in cm is 168, 3/8s of that is 63, 3/4s of that is 47.25, and i’ll round up to 50cm to make this easier. 50cm is .5 of a m.)
(5x.5 is 2.5 m)
(Just for the leg part of the dress alone, so it’d have to be a short dress)
(so let’s say the short dress she’s going to make off that fabric is 1/4s of her legs. which is 25% of 63, or 15.75. i’m rounding this to 15. since i’m lazy.)
(so five of those would be .75m and if we consider the top part to be roughly 2 metres- provided if she makes the cuts just right, she should have enough to fill out a single small dress using just that fabric (there’s going to be wasted space from having to spread out the cuts, after all)
(So in conclusion if I was Drakor i’d have bought either one or two more metres depending on my intentions for the dress just to be safe, accounting for space between cuts, fat areas on the body, etc etc.)
(none of this is useful information, mind you, but you must understand my superiority in. uhm. everything really.)
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(-provided depending on how big her waist is and the width of the fabric she could double up on the area used for some of the cuts length, we aren’t working just in length, but it’s still gonna take up a fairly large amount of space (less so if it’s just around the skirt area i think, so actually drakor only buying 3m for her should be fine if she knows how to cut it)
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I didn’t sleep very well last night so I might be misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you’re imagining all the panels of the skirt being laid end to end, rather than some of them being laid side by side, but I think there would probably be room to fit at least some side by side?
(disclaimer that I’ve never sewn anything more complicated than, like, a tote bag)
worst case scenario she makes a shirt instead of a dress 
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RECOGNISE MY AUTHORITY
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you know this pfp is sufficiently worse at terrifying people i just sound dumb
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yes yes you know a lot about dress construction you have done well
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:)
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this does only apply to a short dress though i’m standing pretty firm that 3m is deffo not enough for a long dress for someone who’s 5’6" you could double up there at most twice per skirt part which is going to end up being way more than 1m and you need 2 for the top part
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okay you could do it (in theory, if the rest of her body besides her height is super small) but it would create the worst dress known to humankind
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also why are we all so freakishly tall. lionel might be the shortest pc.
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the straightforward answer is that our intuitive sense of how tall people should be (…and technically the heights printed in RAW, which I am ignoring,) is heavily influenced by the heights of, like, real people we actually know, who grew up in the modern day, typically had access to modern medicine, and typically were not subsistence farmers
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nerd <–the speaker of this word just spent 45 minutes being 80% correct about dress composition
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(another thing to keep in mind is that Drakor probably does not know much about how much fabric his sister would need)
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