Solution for a Dress

A year ago, I made a beautiful dress with an embroidered material my daughter had left here. I appliqued leaves around the collar and it really looked great, but fitted me just right. This year, it was way too tight and I didn't have any idea what to do with it, until I saw this picture of the beautiful dress. I folded the dress so that I could cut the skirt into four parts all the way to the waist and hemmed them. Now I can wear the dress over a skirt and it looks like the dress in the picture and it is not ruined at all.