Dress #121: 1920s evening dress in teal Costume dress A detachable pelerine

A detachable pelerine

One of the first things I ever embroidered was an image of two ‘horned rabbits’ from Johann Daniel Meyer’s 1752 Representations of all kinds of animals with their skeletons

and the fabric attached to the basic sheath shape with the widest piece of the circle at the front left hip

and is based on an illustration from Le Larousse Pour Tous

James “experimented with innovative ways of placing and displacing the inner and outer circles in this basic pattern piece

Dress #121: 1920s evening dress in teal Costume dress A detachable pelerineThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a teal pann silk velvet evening dress from the late 1920s by McAvoy, Chicago, offered for sale by Augusta Auctions in 2022. The dress features a gold lame underdress, which Ive replicated with a metallic hemp & silk tissue. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang