We bought this to make my daughter's Halloween costume. I didn't expect it to be so beautiful. Washed 3 times (and it's not even Halloween yet) and still looks brand new. The material is nice and thick. Fits pretty well. She's about to step up to the next size and I knew I wasn't using this until October. If I had known if it would be so cute I would have increased the size so she could wear it longer.

It's a cute little dress! The fabric is thicker so I would expect that even though it was bought for a summer photoshoot she could wear it to go back to school in early fall (should they go?). She is 8 years old but you are everything for her age so I chose size 12. This size fits me. But it doesn't look like a play dress. After all, that's not what I bought it for. No buttons, no seams. It's also a belt and tie which is nice.

My girl loves this dress! She likes to pretend to be Jane Goodall or run her own clinic/wildlife rescue and feels like she looks like it when she wears it. Normally she only wants to wear knit dresses because we definitely prefer very soft clothes, but she said it doesn't bother her and looks cool enough for her to wear often. She's lived up to that promise so far, so if you've got aspiring little wildlife rescuers in your family, chances are they'll like this dress if they play the role.

My daughter needed this uniform as part of a costume for a school wax museum project. It fit her very well. The hem fell just above her knees, just like we hoped. She is 54 inches tall and weighs 68 pounds. The sleeves fit well enough for daytime wear, but she reports that the sleeves don't give you the range of motion needed to fully extend your arms. If you plan to make a lot of socks out of this I would suggest going up a size to allow room for growth and room for possible shrinkage after…