I was partic ularly inspired by a lot of the asymmetrical skirts on those ModCloth dresses.

So I figured
out how to drape the skirt to make that swoop-ey overlap.
Here's a tutorial!

I used ruffle fabric as well as bodic e fabrics that went pretty well in c olor. You c ould do this
without the lace, but I'll show you what I did anyway. I used a strapless dress pattern I made
up based on a few others... not important. Use whatever bodice pattern you want.

I c ut out the bodice of the under layer (pale pink twill), then cut out the lace with the same
shape but with some extra to stick up off the top. With the seam allowances, I only needed
an extra half inch at the most of the lace.

I had to overlap the bodice pieces 1" to allow for the 1/2" vertic al seam allowance, so the lace
would be the right size.

This dress zips up the bac k--if you c hange where yours zips, take note at that part of the
tutorial.
Once the bodice was c ut out, I tackled the skirt. Basically, measure yourself and dec ide what
your skirt length should be. I wanted the skirt to c ome down to just above my knees. Cut out
one panel (one width of the fabric), c utting halfway between the rows of ruffles.

Now, to make half of a second panel to drape with (the skirt will end up being 1.5 panels
around), cut another piec e the same length to about the middle of the fabric.
Now, cutting down the c enter of your folded fabric , along where the fold would be, cut
vertically straight down to your cut edge.

Bac k to the full panel, you'll cut off one corner so you can round off what bec omes the top
edge, which will be gathered.

To round it off even more I cut off this tiny piec e!

Sew your side seams like you would on any skirt--no, that's not true... Sew two of your side
seams, leaving the half piece open on whichever side you want to c ross over it. The halfwidth panel will hang flat in the front, and one side of the full-width panel will c ross over it.

Now gather your curved edge of the wide panel.

Now you have a long c urved, gathered piec e. Mark the sides so you know where they are.

Arrange the gathers mostly concentrated at the point where the long edge touches the waist
seam. Pin lots!

Now create a center back plac ket for your zipper. An invisible zipper is best with this fabric , I
think!

Now, with all those pins still in place, gather all the way around the skirt, starting at the center
bac k.

Now you c an attach your skirt to your bodice! Watch where the center front swoopy part
sits.

Flip and give it a little pressing so it stays flat at the waist, not too bulky.
Almost done--I c hose to gather the bottom few inc hes of the underskirt (the narrow piece) so
it didn't risk hanging down below the swooped up overlap. I just did a gathering stitc h with
strong thread and tied off the ends.

And here it is!

Rather, here I am in all my bac helorette glory! Wish we had a more in-focus pic ture... sorry, it was a
busy night. See how the skirt hangs?