Petti-troubles

So, I have a petticoat all cut out and pinned to my dress form (she still needs a name, btw, but I can't seem to decide on one...all dress forms need names), and I have the thread I need for it...but not the zipper. I need to go get one in the appropriate color and preferably one that will be more or less hidden when in place. Also, I'm not sure if it would be best to cut the hemline before or after the side seams are sewn. It's supposed to be higher in the front and lower in the back. Additionally, I didn't use a pattern, and I'm trying to decide whether or not it'd be smarter to lay these pieces out on the fabric I'm using for the over-skirt, or if I should just BS that skirt the way I did this petticoat...

Dilemmas, dilemmas. *sigh*

The fabric store is open for another two and a half hours, so I have plenty of time to go get that blasted zipper...but then I'll actually have to start sewing and come to decisions on all the other things, too, so I keep procrastinating. Also, I have homework I should be doing (though it isn't due till Monday.........it feels like it's already Sunday, though, which is throwing me off), and probably an essay I ought to write. Ugh.

Here's what I have so far:

Despite my various hesitations, I actually really like how it's shaping up. The fabric is super lightweight, so very sheer, but I'm inclined to use this as an actual skirt for World Steam Expo, provided I make some additional, white petticoats to go under it.......................but what this is really for is the bottom-layer petticoat for Idris, for Youmacon. Her lowest petticoat is striped, from what I can see in pictures, and so is this, though really subtly. Part of the way it hangs is due to the bum pad I rigged out of quilter's batting, though as of right now it's merely pinned in place, too, not sewn into a wearable piece of underclothing yet.

Also, did I mention that I'm pretty sure the original calls for a ruffly bottom edge? I hate ruffles, for one, and I'm not actually sure I have enough fabric to make ruffles that go all the way around. And I don't know if I'll like the finished product as much on its own as I do now. I love Victorian fashions, I really do, but I also like clean hemlines, I guess.

Dunno what I'm gonna do. Just thought I'd post and try to straighten my headspace out a bit.