For a summer woven dress the best fabric is rayon challis or cotton lawn
Rensch describes a trend for coordinating outfits, Matching was prevalent, and popular outfits for kids featured matching shorts, Polo shirts and socks, all with the same patterns or colors. Like their adult counterparts, boys often wore shorts and tube socks
The dress was strapless but I wanted off shoulder style, Jacqui brought her onsite tailor, she had the material available as the dress was her own design, Tailor is amazing, very professional, they made me come back few hours later for a fitting as I was traveling two days after, she wanted to make sure that alterations were ok before I leave., that was great as I had peace of mind
For reference, mannequin has a 37 chest and 28 waist measurement