Let's draft together the pattern for this nice dress.
It features an interesting dart manipulation into a volume at the neckline: there's something like a front twist that shapes the bodice. The skirt part is also interesting because of an unusual V cut.
You can sew it in any lightweight woven fabric - if you use something sheer we suggest sewing also a camisole and attach it to the shoulder and waist seam and to add a full lining to skirt part.
To draft the pattern, start from a basic block with darts and matching sleeve.
You can learn our method for drafting perfectly made to measure basic blocks (contoured ones, and the ones with wearing ease) and for fitting them in our basic blocks course/module 1.
Trace a copy of your basic block with full fort.
On front and back cut though the waistline and draw the waistband:
First we manipulate darts in waistband and skirt parts.
On all waistbands, close the darts. Both waistbands will be slightly curved upwards when darts are closed.
On front and back skirt draw a slash line from dart apex all the way to hem line.
These are back pieces:
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