Edit: I need to take a better photo of this when it isn’t midnight.

I know I haven’t been posting lately, but I haven’t been sewing as much as I should have, also. Things have been busy all around, but I’m getting back into the swing of things, slowly but surely, and that includes sewing.

This Halloween I am (hopefully) going as a mermaid. I’m on the fence about my tail, which looks baggy. Granted this is pre-styling, pre-embellishments, and I haven’t attached the side zipper yet.

I need some advise, guys. Should I:
1) Make it work! Leave the pattern alone, and rely on embellishment, glitter, fishnets, tridents whatever it takes!
2) Make it work: modify the pattern. Attach the zipper, taper the side seams to produce a thinner silhouette. Also pile on the embellishments.
3) Re-draft a new tail pattern?