I've taken another crack at Butterick 5209, a 1947 re-issue pattern. This time, I made the other view...but...
The sleeves or the fabric made the whole thing look like a house dress. The picture is very cute, but it looked really dowdy on me, so I removed the sleeves. The bodice is self lined (doubled), so I didn't have to make any facings, just press and top stitch.
As with the yellow halter dress, I had to add an underarm dart as a kind of FBA to fix the gap-osis that was going on.