Girl's Colonial Dress-Simplicity 3725

Hello Fair Readers!
As you all know, I have a flow of little children coming through my house for classes, literature studies, and just to play with dolls. =) A couple weeks ago a little student comes up to me brimming with ideas for a Harvest festival costume. This studemt loves all my costumes, and took some ideas from them, and added her own flare.
Well, fast forward, Thursday we got the materials together and it fit in the budget her mom set perfectly!
And then I started to sew. And I had so much fun, I kept sewing until, in three days it was done and looked better than my imagination could make it. It turned out looking like a Felicity dress!
I am so excited (and a wee bit proud of myself.)
I hope you all like it!

I used Simplicity 3725 as a base:
Here is my version of view C. I altered the bodice facing and stomacher trimmings.
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^Under construction



All done! Front View

Back of dress, you can see it has a tie in the back, because Joy is very slender.
The zipper is the part I am so proud of. You can see the cream ties that "hoist" the over skirt up. Joy wanted that detail in particular, after seeing one of my creations like that.

So cute!

What do you all think?
xoxox
Lexi