The dress is cute ans true to size. My daughter is 8, wears a 7/8 and the size 8 I ordered fits perfectly.  I am only giving this 2 stars because the fabric is incredibly thin and wrinkles really bad when wearing (she sits it wrinkles, the seatbelt caused a massive wrinkle,etc) and  after washing and drying it required ironing. I really do not want to have to iron a childs dress but it would look horrific if you didn't every time after washing.