Broderie Anglaise Midi Dress - Blood Red

Really disappointed. This dress is beautiful, but it has two problems:

1. They seem to have done the classic bad plus size design thing of taking a pattern and simply scaling up everything, resulting in massive arm holes. I expect this from a cheap shop, but not from here, which supposedly actually thinks about plus size bodies. I needed the dress soon, and so chose to pay to get it altered rather than return it - we reduced the arm hole by about 50%.

2. The sizing advice is misleading. It says "Designed with stretchy side panels at the chest and waist and with a loose fit at the hips. If you are between sizes, we suggest you buy based on your bust measurement." This is inaccurate. The top and waist are stretchy, and the outer skirt is loose, but there's an underskirt with zero stretch, cut fairly straight. Luckily I got away with it, but the underskirt definitely feels 'there' (so there's not the nice feel of a full skirt) This could easily have been avoided if they'd just cut the underskirt closer to the shape of the outer skirt (although from this specific company, I would really expect an underskirt with some stretch)

So happy with the dress the colour is gorgeous. More deep red than it appears online. Well made and very comfortable to wear. Best of all it has pockets