Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon)

Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon) says that she 'loosed upon a startled London draped skirts that opened to reveal the legs'

as shown in the December 1926 issue of Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des Arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme

Available in a variety of colours and papers

The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres

Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon)This pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread, and is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on a dress from: Challamel, Augustin, Frances Cashel Hoey, and John Lillie, 'The history of fashion in France; or, The dress of women from the Gallo Roman period to the present time'. London: Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1882. The dress is six inches tall, stitched