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This hand stitched paper dress is based on a teal panné silk velvet evening dress from the late 1920s by ‘McAvoy
The teacups are a smidge over 3 inches tall
the original
The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The original dress is held by the Kyoto Costume Institute (accession AC9206 95-7)
Hippopotamus in Grey Regency dress This hand stitched paper dressOne of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The
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