Dress #062.3: Charles James cocktail dress in wine Bison hand-stitched by hand on 8x10

hand-stitched by hand on 8x10 inch paper

This darling little dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper patterned in silver dots on a yellow background

This darling little pinup dress is made from Korean Hanji paper in white and gold flowers on a bright turquoise background

The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

but that’s just the way nature designed them

Dress #062.3: Charles James cocktail dress in wine Bison hand-stitched by hand on 8x10This hand stitched wine red paper dress is based on a cocktail dress designed by British born American designer Charles James in 1950. It is made from Japanese Kiku paper. Hand embroidered lines imitate the seams and folds of the dress. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2009. 300. 180. Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s