Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Rabbit The outfit is six inches

The outfit is six inches tall

This hand-stitched dress is made from shimmering pale yellow Japanese paper

It is based on an English dress from 1909

Based on an American dress from the Wexler & Abraham [Wechsler & Abraham] department store in Brooklyn

Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Rabbit The outfit is six inchesThis hand stitched coral dress is based on an American dress by the Bergdorf Goodman Department Store, from ca. 1929, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. To imitate the cold and coral brocade of the original, I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern patterned chiyogami paper. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. After a great deal of thought about how to best portray the way the