Progress of this dress can be found on my blog.

I am so happy with this dress. It is my first floor length dress and I modeled it from those lovely 40s gowns with bolero tops (one is in the works).

This is also my first sheer dress, and I bought this fabric, a blue sheer, black striped weave with cream tulips, just for my repo pattern, but at the last minute I decided to make it floor length, but I only bought 4 yards, so I had to do some piecing. I had to piece the back and front blouse but I did it on the flower line.

I was worried about the skirt, because I thought I cut the hips too snug. AND I had to have an underdress beneath it and allow for that. Well, I skimmed on the seam allowance for the over dress and tried to make the underdress as tight as I could.