[AnAmericanMother]

I think the problem is the fabric of the dress, not so much the line. I'm long-torsoed myself, and I often wear low-waist dresses. But I choose heavier fabrics that hold their line.

If she insists on wearing "fluttery" fabrics, she needs a heavy silk underdress. Only the extremely thin can carry off a busy fitted waist like that in a lightweight fabric.

Meow!

[mrsmel]

I think dropped-waist dresses suit a long torso(like yours),not short torsos(like mine,and hers,to a lesser extent).I totally agree about the fabric-lightweight,but stiff-even worse for that figure(as you say,the lightness is puffy-bad enough-but the stiffness,especially in the pleated skirt,adds to the dumpiness/chunkiness of the line).As a short woman with short torso/long-legged figure, I have to pay a LOT of attention to line and where things are cut off,and things that don't add to the up-and-down visual that I need.

"MEOW" is right,LOL,but hey,she just begs for it:)