Dress #107: Charles James evening gown in green Victorian dress This was the first time

This was the first time I layered my papers

you'll see that this ferocious little vampire bat has teeny tiny stitched fangs

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989

This hand-stitched paper gown in the ‘artistic’ or ‘aesthetic’ style is based on an English dress designed for Liberty & Co

and this stack comes from my china cabinet

Dress #107: Charles James evening gown in green Victorian dress This was the first timeThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a vibrant green silk satin evening gown created by Charles James in 1954. Both the Museum at FIT (accession 91. 241. 129) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 3522) hold versions of this gown. In addition, the Met has a toile of the dress design in black and white cotton muslin (accession 2009. 300. 796). The original dress uses a variation of the metacircle technique, where the starting