New Look 6071 part 1: the back

(Thanks for all your comments about sergers!  I'm taking them all under advisement!)

I have a lot to say about this dress, New Look 6071, so I'm going to break this into a few posts.

Here's how I fit the back of the dress.

It's a double knit dress, with a dartless back with a CB seam.

When I first made this dress, I added 2 darts in the back and maybe overfitted it a bit.  It's my favorite knit dress though and I've worn it quite a lot.

This time I tried the darts but it looked bad (no picture of that)

I ripped out the darts and it looked like this, back to start, with just a CB seam:




So I got out the handy dandy binder clips and got to work.

That's much better, but that has nothing to do with the front.

So I clipped it to curve it up to meet the stylelines in the front.
It adds some new drag lines but I like that it connects this new line in the back to the line in the front.
So now it's sewn:


And here is the before and after:



Not perfect, but MUCH better.

And here's what it looks like on the side:



Does anyone else fit with binder clips?
Be well!