This dress is stunting.... just stunning. Even if your just trying it out (basiclly all regular in your house), it looks beautiful. so you can just imagine when you do yourself up for the event. It fits as expected ( but measuring yourself is very important) even if you get one size to small, because of the tie string in the back it could be adjusted ( but everyone shouldn't go off of that because it depends on your body type), but for my daughter this was the case. I did notice (before purchasing) the comments about certain colors. I didn't see one about burgundy, so I purchased it. The burgundy on the picture looks like a deep red, so we purchased it, because that's the color that she wanted. When it came, we noticed the dress seemed more like a purplish color. (So put burgundy on the list of slightly off colors) but because the dress is so gorgeous,  this was for her junior prom, and she does love the color purple we kept the dress anyway. So the reason why I'm giving this 5 stars is because the dress is such great quality and it's just so beautiful, that it kind of makes you forget about the minor off of color. But that depends on how much of a stickler you are for color, depending on the event you need it for. FYI this is her dressed without a petticoat. And the dress (depending on your height) is long. she's 5 3, and got a size 10 (which fit her perfectly). So hopefully when we do purchased the Petticoat, because she wants more fluff,  it'll take care of the length issue. Otherwise just get it hemmed.