Dress #085: Edwardian afternoon dress in blue Shoes and boots held by the Victoria and

held by the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession T

and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T

This hand-stitched green paper dress is based on the ‘Petal’ cocktail dress designed by British-born American designer Charles James in 1951

Japanese chiyogami paper in gold on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads

Dress #085: Edwardian afternoon dress in blue Shoes and boots held by the Victoria andThis hand stitched paper Edwardian dress is made from blue Japanese paper with shimmering pearly white paper standing in for the lace of the original. The design is based on an afternoon dress from Redfern, as shown in the February 1910 issue of Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustre des Arts dcoratifs appliqus la femme. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in