red mini cocktail dress A-Line Short Flared Party with Lace Trim Red / Medium the Tori is your go Scala 70114 Fitted Sequin Short

Next I had to determine how much to change the underbust and back pieces to account for the shirring

Hessian is a great, inexpensive fabric to choose

Women cross-dressers could be self-divided, brooding, Byronic figures but for women the inversion of cross-dressing is not always or even primarily erotic. But, noting the appeal of Sarah Bernhardt and Marlene Dietrich, clearly such seductive cross-dressers can function as sex symbols for men, reflecting masculine attitudes that range from an attempt to eroticize (and thereby posses) the independent woman to only slightly submerged homosexual fantasies. Female Modernists tended to be more extreme both in actually playing the male role and their reaction against such camouflaging as male pseudonyms

I think of this suggestion as being relative to casual

Sweetheart necklines, modest yet romantic, appear frequently in period sources