little black [purple] dress!

so i finally finished my dress-in-progress!  it has gone thru several iterations since the initial cutting and sewing, including a banded bottom in both black and purple, an awkwardly short black shift, and a weirdly long torso-ed black and purple scarf-added tea-length badness.

but i added elastic to the sides for some quick ruching..

[after removing brown thread and resewing] moral: sewing with all lights on is a plus.

readjusted scarf bottom

and voila!  flattering from both sides.  unusual i know.  now to get rid of it...