Renaylor, beautiful dress! Thanks, everyone, for all comments and suggestions. I reduced the number of curves and control points and did a very nice loft. Then I scaled the size to 1.05 and in the wireframe (and shade!) it looks good--just a little tweaking needed--basically everything covered smoothly. If I knew how to send a picture of the wireframe, I would. But as you can see in the render, the breasts, and a lot more, stick out :>( Can't figure out why the shade and the render would be se different, or why when the wireframe top clearly covers everything, it isn't covered in the render.