Thank you for your feedback!

Thanks everyone for your feedback.  Originally I had planned to make it a sleeveless dress.  When I made the bust adjustment, I realized I had used the side front pieces for the drop shoulders and not the sleeveless side front.  I decided to go ahead with the adjustments made on the drop shoulder.  I think, like many of you suggested, the sleeveless version is better. 

Blogging is such a good way to get feedback from your sewing buddies, especially when in my case, I don't have many close by to bounce things off of.  For now, I am going to let this dress stay as is because I want to move forward with the current dress and then onto fall sewing.

Oh, one more thing.  The v-neckline others suggested, the pattern does have one for another potential design.  The back of the dress is a v-neck and here is a parting shot of that. (Oops, my hair is covering it!)

True confession-I am not overjoyed with the yellow dress

I know many of you have kept up with my posts about the Simplicity dress.  I am pleased with  how I underlined the dress bodice.  I like that I lined the flounces with self fabric.  I even like my elastic covered belt with silver buckle.  I have to say that the dress feels heavy, probably due to the weight of the bodice flounces as they were designed to be one layer. I love the color and the fabric I used was nice to sew.

However I am just not overjoyed about the dress as I thought I would be.  I don't wear flounces in the bodice much so that feels unusual to me.  The neckline stands away from neck and shoulders.  I knew that it was going to do that as it did from the start and a couple of things I did to try to fix it just didn't eliminate that.  I even thought I should take a deeper seam in the upper chest area, as I think the dress feels too wide.  But if I do that I don't think I could get it on, as it is a pull on dress.

Here's a link to the photo shots of dress-front view.http://www.flickr.com/photos/danvillegirl1951/4885055388/in/photostream

I actually pressed the dress before putting it own; you can see the wrinkles just from putting it on.  I plan to take it to dry cleaners for a good pressing and will wear it next week.

Dress is almost complete!

Almost complete.  I inserted the elastic into the casing made by stitching the bodice to skirt and then stitching the upper edge of the seam.  Pattern calls for 1/4 inch elastic but I used 3/8 for a better fit and feel.  I then covered the belt elastic.  I was able to find a silver buckle at JoAnn's on Thursday to use. After elastic was covered and folded over edges were sewn down, I tried on the dress and decided I did not like the A-line look of the skirt portion. 

My inspiration dress is more straight or tapered.  I then look in the side seams from just below the side seam pocket to hem edge.  I did this for lining fabric as well, of course.   All I need to do now is hem the dress and lining!!! 

Yea!!  This project was beginning to make me feel bogged down.  I have more projects floating in my head and want to get started on them before my vacation is over and back to work!!

Another sewing idea.

I purchased this fabric some months ago from WalMart. It is similar to a lightweight linen fabric. It was marked polyester. I had originally planned to make a dress from it. But it is so lightweight that I am now leaning toward a blouse or two. I have three yards of this. The price was great so I bought the remaining fabric on the bolt-3 yards. It goes great with the blue fabric used in the high waisted blue skirt.