fred - don't worry about the dress. It might look nicer, but if you were to try it on, then it would dig in under the ribs, or the lacy bits would be itchy or it would make you look wobbly in the wrong places, you could spend a fortune getting it altered and on the day realise that you've altered it beyond all recognition and your original dress was better.
Or you could stick with the one you've got which is absolutely delicious.
Dd1 was being giddy and messing about and she squirted a syringe full of liquid at someone in the science lab.
And the teacher only wrote to me after she had told Dd1 off, given her a detention and reported her to the head of year (ie: she has done it three, four times)
Dd1 says that the liquid was only water, but she doesn't know what was in the syringe before the water, so she could have squirted diluted acid at someone's face or something.
So, tis more serious than just her messing about. We have spoken and I don't think she will do it again.