I'm planning to make View B for my daughter for her to wear on her 1st birthday. I want to keep the garment itself as simple as possible since the print is a bold pink/white geometric. I am planning to eliminate the front flaps and add simple white piping to the waist seam. But I also want to eliminate the buttons on the back skirt panels and just have the buttons on the bodice back. I was thinking I'd take the front skirt pattern piece, fold out the pleat and trace it again to create a single back skirt pattern piece. Do you think that would work? The bottom of the bodice back placket pieces would overlap and be sewn shut in the waist seem so that area would have some bulk but do you think that would be a terrible problem? I'm hoping someone here can stop me if I'm about to make a big mistake altering the pattern.