Dress #111: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Gallery to echo the original French

to echo the original French silk

Or older turtles

an American evening dress from 1893

Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

yet also adorable harpy is based on an illustration from John Jonston’s Natural History of Birds

Dress #111: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Gallery to echo the original FrenchThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the Spiral dinner dress created by Charles James in ca. 1950; the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 167). The design uses asymmetrical draping, and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self covered flat buttons at the back left. Ive used a shimmering brown decorative paper to stand in for the brown silk faille of the dress