leaveharmony:

Ok @mooncustafer @ennals (whichever actually alerts you lol): This is the bottom of the bodice pattern.  Where it says “Lengthen or shorten here” does that mean that essentially the bodice can be as short as where the double line is if the wearer/maker so chooses, or is it only meant to be that short if one’s torso is very short?  Personally most of my dresses have a bodice that starts quite high so I don’t think having it a lil shorter would be a problem…but I’m admittedly new at this   (it’s dress A)

I may be spitting into the wind, but I think what they’re saying is that line is where you insert extra length, or where you subtract it, like: