Pattern Cutting Tennis Dress

I thought it was time to trial out one of my designs that I want to look further into. This is the tennis dress, that has the jumper that can be wrapped around the waist when the player is too warm or can easily put it back on when cold or traveling/commuting. I did use the skirt block to get the bottom of the dress right. However, it maybe too long and big due to using a woven block but that can easily be reduced. For the jumper I didn't use any blocks, as I wanted to see what I could do without them. I wanted to look into one piece pattern cutting for this project, as I've used it before in First Year and was an interesting concept.

In the pictures, is the layering of the cross jumper on the tennis dress. There is one section on the back that is attached to the skirt part to create the 'tied around waist jumper' loo. The neck line is quite large to help remove the jumper over the head. The left side of the jumper is one piece pattern cut. When toiling, it would be interesting to see how the sleeve would crease/drape around the shoulder and when testing it out would it restrict movement or make it more flexible? I'm looking forward to seeing the results to this piece as its something different for me to do, never worked with stretch before.

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