I just finished my first costume and the over skirt is made using straight panels with elastic at the waist. I did it for the same reason you are talking about - I already had the fabric but it was too small to make into a skirt any other way. It looks nice but it doesn't move nearly as nicely as a circle skirt and it is thicker at the waist because of the extra fabric gathered there. Everybody who has seen it assumes it is a circle skirt until I point out that it actually isn't.
Chani
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