Dress continued

So far I have a basic sack back dress....but of course my design is not a simple sack back dress, so:

I know that my dress will consist of a sheer layer over a base layer, consequently I went and bought some super cheap sheer fabric to see how that would work. I'm likely going to use a lace in the final make up, but I didn't really want to throw money into lace given how much I'm expecting this to cost.

I asked for a couple of other students help on this one, those I know to be good with sheer fabrics and draping and I'm so glad I did , check it out:

 It really looked like the design, which was pretty exciting for me. Although I am not happy with having to probably put a seam in to make the panel full length.

I felt as nice as it looked, it wasn't really representative of the design, so I kept one side like this and made another with the sheer fabric backed onto calico:

which I feel looks much better.