Sometimes it's not so much the look of the dress (although this one looks, in my opinion, marvelous) but the feel of it. Look at that gathering at the bottom of the back yoke. Made in a heavy enough fabric, this would pull your shoulders back, make you stand straighter. The gathering at the center back of the skirt, so much more than at the front, would feel like a train. How do you feel, if you are standing with your shoulders well back, and if when you move you it seems like you are managing a train? You feel like a queen.
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A Dress A Day 
Do you feel that one must wear the undergarments of the day with dresses like these? Clearly these are meant to have major girdle action underneath them.–NK
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If I sew them myself, I add a little extra wearing ease (soon to the be subject of an ADAD post) or go up a size. This one in particular, not so much, because the bust isn’t terribly darted and the hips are what they call “free”. The waist is the only big problem. And these pleats are even forgiving of a little potbelly.
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