My beloved first truly North Rhine frock seemed beyond repair, but I trimmed the under-linings just enough to not need to piece the skirt more than I had originally. So that was about 30cm from the waist and maybe forty from the hem. These were my “if I can scrape through I’ll keep them” allowances but I don’t need them.
I also checked my proportions through cunning use of zoom of the images to make hands the same size as mine. So the liste is a lovely 50cm tall. This pushes my red panel up just high enough that the original width is very nearly retained. I wish this shade of velveteen was still available, but Spotlight stopped stocking it years ago. Now we only have fairly muted but deep tones. But I might even be able to just really deep dye some to make it easier to make a strip that will edge the entire skirt.