RubiesRubies Child's Forum Colonial Girl Costume Dress, Small

We needed a costume for Colonial Day field trip and with less than a week to get that organized - this saved the day. I read the reviews that it was cheap and thin....well it's a $20 costume so not sure why you would expect something of high quality for that price. If you're looking for something to do the trick and not break the bank then is this is perfect. The material is polyester - the apron and bonnet are thinner but it fit perfectly and looked great! The medium was a perfect fit for my 9yr old who is on the small side - she wears a 7/8 and she has room for growth so I would say it would fit an average 9-11yr old well. For the price, this exceeded my expectations especially since there were so many reviews on the quality....perhaps I was bracing for something awful - but I thought it was a great little costume and well worth the $20.

"We" are working on my second grader's assigment to write a story about Priscilla Alden and come in dressed in character to present to the class. Instead of fumblimg through the close and coming up with assorted items we went right to Amazon.Com. MY daughter knows I am an Amazon Prime member and as a single mom of three it is the best small investment you can make that will give you endless benefits. Within a short time we found an inexpensive costume. It arrived in two days, as a Prime Member, and this costume is really well made for the price. The material is silky and the detaiing and lace totally kick it up a notch. With countless of Halloween costumes and school plays for three kids, two who are already in high school, I am enthralled. It will arrive in one of those plastic bags with the hanger like you would get in Party City or Walmart or wherever you would pick up a costume, but when you take it out of the bag you can see the difference. This costume can compete with the $75+ costume I purchased from Birthday Party Express so my little one could be "Dorothy" from the Wizard of Oz to match her birthday theme. The one condition I had given her was that with that much spent, Dorothy is getting another outing this Halloween. We are both very pleased!

This fit my daughter perfectly and worked out great for her school concert. However, it is not made of a good quality material and snags fairly easily. It is the standard, cheaper material you'd find any run-of-the-mill children's Halloween costume made out of with Velcro enclosures used up the back side. Don't get me wrong though it did work out perfectly for what we needed it for. The head cap is absolutely adorable. We would have liked a little more "poof" out of the skirt portion though. It sits rather pencil-like on the child's body, straight up and down. She wants to wear it for Halloween this year with a puffy skirt underneath for lift.

Not cheap and see through. Long and good quality. Lawyer through holidays.

Comfortable, true to size looks good

Perfect for the 4th of July!

The shipped super quickly for the time we needed it for my daughter's school project. We noticed many other kids had the same dress. Maybe a variety of colors would be nice, but besides that it was perfect. Probably get a size up as well.

I bought this for my daughter because her class had pioneer day and she had to dress the part and I wasn't going to sew a costume together. It looks like the picture and is an economical price but in pioneer times they didn't have clothes that shined like this does. If it was a matte material it would've looked a lot more authentic. I bought a size small and it was a bit big for my daughter she wore a size 7 at the time. It's a lot like other dress up clothes it has 2 Velcro strips to close the back of the dress so I had her wear clothes underneath this costume on pioneer day. My daughter was happy and I didn't have to make anything so win-win. It worked for our needs and didn't cost too much...actually another girl in her class wore the same one lol.

The costume was used for a play on the First Fleet arriving in Australia. It suited this time period really well, and the fit was fantastic, true to size with some stretchiness to it which was great.