Okay, aside from the fact that it seems to be an embryonic Susan Dey in this picture, I'm not sure this two.jpgece dress has all that much redeeming value. I mean, doesn't this it look like something that keeps you safe during shipping? It's called a bubble stitch but I believe they left out the word "wrap."
I'm not a huge fan of crocheted dresses (or knitted ones, either, for that matter, remember the Technofur dress?) but this one seems more egregious than the usual run. You'd be so … bumpy. I'd be worried about people trying compulsively to POP you. Not for the ticklish or those with a strong sense of personal space.
If you want to make this, though, and can fit in to a 1970s size 12 (or can scale it up, I know there are a lot of crocheters that read this) click on the picture to visit the pattern instructions.
A Dress A Day 
You might enjoy the blog You Knit What? for the shock/horror/wonder value. The stuff that’s up right this minute isn’t particularly gasp-inducing, but there have been some astonishing things featured there. This crocheted dress is a travesty. Only a pre-teen could wear it without looking as though she’d gained fifty pounds. It would be bumpy to sit on. And it is UGLY! Just because you *can* make something doesn’t mean you *should*.
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When my grandmother (Nana) died in 2000, we found a gorgeous hand-crocheted navy blue dress among her things. Unfortunately, Nana was about 4’10” and 95 pounds, so even though my sister and I are small we’re not THAT small and the dress had no prayer of fitting. We gave it to charity with a pile of other stuff. I hope a child somewhere is wearing it.
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Okay, I have to ask: doesn’t the word “dress” imply one piece, thereby precluding the use of the words “two-piece?” I mean, why break up a perfectly good dress into two pieces? Call me crazy, but I always made the one-piece assumption. Please correct me if I’m wrong, Erin.
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I think that you can have two-piece dresses if it is painfully obvious that neither piece can be worn with anything else. I don’t know why people make two-piece dresses; I think they only make sense with peplums, or for people who are radically different sizes on the top and bottom but still want something that looks like a dress …
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It might not be as bad to sit on as you think…before I would make it though, I’d make a test swatch and sit on it before I’d do a whole dress! LOL
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Thanks for the perspective, Erin. I love your blog.
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Thank you!
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