Up close the fixing(zip part) so that it can get on and off easily I decided to keep it separate rather than attach it to the main dress as the weight was becoming a bit of an issue.
This is the under skirt part that is to then have the dress over the top. Knitted on a round then the crochet is picked up at the top to make the waist band and then the heavy edging is a pickup of stitches on a 15 mm crochet hook in three yarns to give it the weight to hang.