Feedback wanted: 1970s Gunne Sax Dress
I'm working on recreating a Gunne Sax dress from the early 1970s; it was a Barbie dress I had.
This is a picture of the original dress...
This is my Sims version:
When I started working on my Sim version, I was doing so from memory, so many of the details are off, when compared to the original. I'm not necessarily interested in doing a slavish copy, so much, as a nice looking and believable Gunne Sax dress from the era. Having said that, this Sim version needs work -- shading and details, and possibly even cleaning up some of the details which are already on the dress (like making the neckline truly square, rather than square-ish).
It would also be great if I could find a mesh which more closely resembles the silhouette of this dress. This was the closest one I could find in a cursory search of this site, as well as TSR (I realize saying that's a dirty word, but still...). the mesh I'm using came from SapphireSims and is from SnowflakeSnowFairy. I'd like a mesh with an alpha-editable bell sleeve from the elbow -- the current mesh has a fixed length.
Any help, suggestions, ideas, or tips you can give me would be greatly appreciated!
BTW, I'm using GIMP, along with PhotoPaint so any tutes or help should take that into account. Thanks!