The Sweet Bow Peter Pan knit dress looks buttoned at the front, but its bow buttons are explicitly nonfunctional. It is a pullover, with a butterfly-wing shaped collar, trumpet cuffs and a cinched waist. Those details make the route into the dress a more useful first question than the color choice.

Trace the route over your head

Check the neckline opening on a pullover dress you can put on comfortably. Compare its unstretched opening with a seller measurement for this collar opening, then ask whether the decorative front has any hidden opening. The listing says the knit has some stretch, but gives neither neck circumference nor a recovery test. Do not assume the front buttons can be opened to solve a tight neckline.

Intersect shoulder, chest and waist

S lists 13.5 in across shoulders, 30–34 in chest and 26–30 in waist. M lists 14, 31.5–35.5 and 27.5–31.5; L lists 14.5, 33–37 and 29–33. For a hypothetical 34 in chest and 29 in waist, all three rows touch at least one interval; the shoulder width and preferred ease decide what to check next. Ask whether the intervals are intended body guidance or the dress’s relaxed-to-stretched dimensions. Compare a well-fitting knit measured the same way rather than taking the far end of each range as guaranteed comfort.

Check the details the chart omits

Length rises from 29 in for S to 30 in for L. Mark that hem against a mini dress you own; the chart does not give a measurement origin. Trumpet cuffs can cover part of the hand, but the sleeve and cuff openings are unspecified. Request a flat cuff width and a photo of the collar and waist knit before ordering. The fiber composition is also absent, so “corduroy knit” should be read as a texture description, not a fiber label.