Fitting - Full Dress Take 2

 So for this fitting EVERYONE came :-).  Gina, Linda, Kelly and Jaclyn!  The dress came out great - although I had spent all day finishing the dress before the fitting (my planning ahead could have used some work this time), and my sewing machine quit about 5 minutes and one seam prior to people getting there.  I think it overheated, and decided it was done.  Since then, it has reawakened, and is just fine - but apparently I can't sew that much in one day.  I built the sash into this dress - but it's too low.  If you notice though, the front of the skirt has fullness now, but in the correct locations. :-D

 In the photo to the left, you can see there's a little more fabric to be taken out to fit it to Gina's butt.

And this is the dress bustled.  One thing that I made sure to do this time through making the dress was to cut each "type" of fabric in one go so that I could understand how much fabric we would need to buy to build the actual dress.  So we decided that it was time to buy fabric!  One thing that was bothering me though was the length of the dress, it's about 2-3 inches too long even with Gina's shoes on her.  Because of the layering, it means that I need to re-adjust the layers.  However, at the time, I decided it was going to be fine, and ignored the issue.  HOWEVER, knowing me, it began to bother me, and now over Xmas, I'm going to put it on her again, and find out exactly how much it's long by so that I can correct the pattern before cutting it out of the real fabric.

And for those of you who have asked - YES - this is just a practice dress.  The only piece of this dress that will be a part of the real dress is the bra cups sewn in the bodice.  YES this is a lot of work for practice - but it has been an evolution of the idea, and of the pattern.  I needed to be confident that when I cut out of the real fabric that it was going to be correct, and I wasn't going to mess up the expensive fabric.