Oh, the possibilities

Dress possibilities, that is. I've almost finished the dress, but I can't decide exactly how to place the straps. Can you help me decide?

Possibility #1:

Dress possibility #1

This was my original idea for the dress -- dove at the center front, with straps attaching in the back. When I actually put it together, though, the dove looks a bit large for that position. Other times, when I walked past it from a distance, I really loved it.

Possibility #2

Here's the most conservative possibility -- dove in the back, with straps attaching up front. While this solves the problem of having a big honkin' dove in your face at the front of the dress, I worry that it leaves the front too plain. I could add beads or other decorations to the ends of the straps to hang from the front of the dress, but I just don't know if that's gonna cut it.

Dress possibility #3

Finally, I just gave up, threw the dove on my dressmaker's bust and went to dinner. When I came back, I found the dove positioned just like this -- and I kind of liked it. But is it delightfully quirky, or just kind of random and gross?

I've looked at this dress so long that I can't decide. Maybe I should just make a few of each? I'd love to hear your opinions.

Oh, and while you're mulling it over, have a little inspiration: "Runnin" by Heartless Bastards, yet another selection from the Little Black Dress playlist.

05 Runnin

Heartless Bastards