Dress #103: Charles James ‘Clover Leaf’ ballgown in pinks Beard & Moustache Materials: Japanese & Korean paper

Materials: Japanese & Korean paper

The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2013

It is based on a Spanish gown from ca

and fashioned after a man’s jacket

Dress #103: Charles James ‘Clover Leaf’ ballgown in pinks Beard & Moustache Materials: Japanese & Korean paperThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the Clover Leaf ballgown designed by Charles James in 1953; this version in pinks is held by the Museum at FIT (accession P77. 1. 7). Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s and 1950s, and is considered by the Met to be the only American to work in the true couture tradition. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which