This was a pleasant surprise! The fabric is nice and light and feels like cotton. We used this for my eight year old's Halloween costume as a sugar skull. I had to make it shorter, which was super easy to do by just overlapping the seam on the bottom ruffle and stitching it up. I didn't make the chest area less 'busty,' but could have to make it fit better as it wasn't obvious with the black color. She looked great. We will keep this around for many years to come as a Halloween costume as I could see it used many ways as she grows up.