Are you sick of hearing about this dress yet?

I may have solved the problem! Or, both problems, as it happens. My main problem with the dress is that it started hiking up my legs as soon as I would take even a few steps. The second is that it seemed to cling to my hips and thighs a bit excessively.

Well, yesterday while I worked around the house, I decided to *gently* stretch the bottom of the dress around the back of a small upholstered chair, to see if it would add a little more "give" to the stretchy underlayer of the mesh dress. Well, it worked! When I tried it on again last night, it still shifted upwards when I walked, but not nearly as much as it did before. It also feels and looks less clingy on my legs. The shape is slightly less tapered at the bottom than it was before -- just enough that I don't feel quite so much like it emphasizes my saddlebags.

No pics yet, but I'm feeling better about it. Will definitely share with hubs when he returns home!

Thanks again for the encouragement to look more carefully at it. If I'd just stuffed it in my returns bag, I wouldn't have thought to try the stretching tactic.