Baby Taylor Fashion Pinafore Dress

The screen for Baby Taylor Fashion Pinafore Dress opens with a plain pinafore laid out flat, blank until you touch a swatch. Tap a fabric pattern first and it fills the bodice right away, so you see the print before deciding on a color to go under it. Once the base pattern is set, the rest of the screen fills in with smaller decorating tools.

The toolkit runs in strips down the side: fabric swatches in ginghams, florals and polka dots, a row of trims like rickrack and lace for the hem, and a bin of buttons plus a stitched flower appliqué for the bodice. Below the dress sit the baby's own pieces, a bonnet, ruffled socks and mary janes, each layering on top of the pinafore once it's decorated.

What separates this from a plain baby dress-up screen is that you decorate the fabric of the dress before it goes on Baby Taylor, closer to designing a print than picking a finished outfit off a rack. As a makeover game it ends the familiar way, with the baby standing in the finished pinafore, bonnet, socks and shoes in place for one last look before you start over on a blank dress.

Match the trim color to one shade already in the pattern instead of the opposite end of the palette, since a matched trim reads as intentional and a clashing one reads as random. Place the appliqué after the pattern and trim are set so it sits on top instead of getting lost in a busy print. The button bin sits below the fold on smaller screens and is easy to scroll past, but a few buttons down the front placket pull the bodice together more than the collar does alone.