Wow, you have done a really wonderful job here A. Russel! I am very impressed by how your work has progressed!
Can I ask is all of the dress seperate from the legs? What I mean is couldn't you save some poly by say making the top 1/3 of the legs part of the dress -not sure if I'm being clear.
I found a couple nice examples of low poly modeling you may also like
http://d217859.bo21.bootlegweb.com/forum/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=000262
http://come.to/palmery