I love many things about this dress: it is cotton, a great style with the gathered sleeves and modest neckline, and lined from the waist down. What's not to like about a classic gingham dress for summer?!? I also appreciate that the lining does not stop above the knee like some.
BUT, even if you handwash cold and lay flat to dry, expect this dress to shrink at least 2-3 inches, maybe more. Both of mine shrunk enough that the lining, which is polyester and does NOT shrink, hung out below, and I had to hem it up. I would love to see this dress in more prints, but advise that the fabric be preshrunk or else allow more in the length for the shrinking that will happen.