I like but don't love this dress as much as I wanted to. The 2 main issues are as follows:
1. The way the straps are attached I find the metal piece rotating and being a vertical rectangle instead of horizontal. Seems like this could be made more extreme by 2, but I will likely have to slightly alter the dress to fix this issue if I can't find a replacement dress for the event I was planning to wear this to. This might be made worse by my second issue.
2. I listened to the reviews and trusted the sizing chart. This ran large. Thank goodness for the corset feature because I needed it. Otherwise was swimming in the dress. That was disappointing since part of why I got this was that the corseting would give me flexibility as my body changes. Now it only has flexibility if my body gets larger. I have a hard time believing going down 1 size would have fixed the issue completely as I have it completely cynched up and it is in no way tight on me. The strings are actually dragging on the floor it is so cynched. For reference the size guide put me at 3xl and I think my normal size of xl would have been correct. So maybe size guide is only off for larger sizes.
A third, smaller, preference thing is that for taller girls, like myself, even sized up 2 sizes and getting extra length that way, it is a bit of an odd length. Hits right below/at my knees so isn't a true midi length dress. Would need an extra 4ish inches for that. Would be awesome if had a long version for taller girlies because the extra inch I get in length from sizing up twice does make the length less awkward. An inch sounds like nothing but it really makes the difference.
I only mention these things because you advertise as a slow fashion company and I like having pieces I can wear a long time and due to the issues above, the only way I can do that is with alterations, which with the corseting it felt like that should not be the case.
However, I found this dress too late and clearly should have ordered several sizes since the size chart seemed off. I guess you live and learn.
All that being said, this dress is cute and with some alterations I think I will like it and it will make me look snatched.