What is this bodice treatment called?

Pretty cotton Gigi Young dress that I would like to
VTA on Sunday...the top of the bodice has a separate
panel that sticks out slightly from the under part of the
bodice.

<img src="http://image.inkfrog.com/pix/bartondoll/Dcp_0817.jpg">

You can see abit in the side view at the top how
the panel is away from the dress abit.

<img src="http://image.inkfrog.com/pix/bartondoll/Dcp_0819.jpg">

Sue

 

stand away bodice with straight neckline?

 

Is that called a shelf bodice?

 

I don't think there's an official name for it, but I might call it a bodice panel....paneled bodice...thinking.....

Is that sewn into princess seams?

Princess seamed bodice panel

Paneled bodice w/princess seams

I rambling. Bye.

 

thanks guys, I'm going to try and get this up tonight as a 5-dayer.

Linda, I think a shelf bodice is under the boobs.

Sue

 

I always thought of these as flying buttresses

Hollis

 

....LOL, Hollis....flying buttresses....yes, indeedy, that'll hold up some heavyweight construction!