The beginning construction phase for the "How does your garden grow?" Dress

I first started off by choosing a mannequin to help me map out how I wanted the muslin to sit upon the body. I decided to go with the Princess/Empire core set top. This required me to make individual pieces that would fit along side one another using the Princess guidelines across the upper bodice of the mannequin. With any corset top it is sleeveless and shows much more of the upper body such as the collar bone, shoulders, shoulder blades, and arms of the person wearing it. It just gives off that sense of beauty and clean sharp appearance when seen from close up or from further away. I decided to dip the back of it lower so as to create more of a alluring effect. At this point I went with a straight pencil skirt that would hug the hips, and upper thighs and would attach together at the waist. As for the pleating went I had in my mind it running asymmetrical diagonally across the upper left to lower right of the body.