I was just looking at sewing patterns (once the guy has come to paint our baseboards, we get to put the house back in order! The sewing machine can come out again!) and I found this one, Simplicity 3337:
Is she trying to be Saffron (aka Yolanda, aka Bridget) from Firefly? Because she (and the dress) are doing a very good impression.
I wouldn’t make that particular dress, but I like the others.