~PolishTamales and I basically decided that this season is now MAGIC: THE GATHERING-THEMED DRESS SEASON. DEAL WITH IT.
We both did Jace cosplay dress designs (I actually had a sketch sitting around in my sketchbook for a long while, since before I made my actual Jace cosplay, but I came back to it/finished it here when he brought up the request from a Tumblr user to design a Jace-themed dress during an IM conversation).
Honestly, I feel this one is more loyal to the look than Tamales's. That being said, there are elements in the other that are better there than here, mostly through the hips area. Ironically, I feel it a little busier than it needs to be, as opposed to the other's oversimplicity through the chest.
I definitely agree on my design being rather busy; I was rather concerned/aware of that too, but yeah. The point of Tamales' dress was for it to be (able to be) worn on relatively normal occasions; the point of mine was to be more loyal to Jace's actual costume so, I suppose it's a matter of preference - to an extent.. Maybe sometime though, if I have the inspiration for it, I'll try to do something in the middle of our two designs. ^^