Dress #111: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Rabbit This hand-stitched Edwardian paper gown

This hand-stitched Edwardian paper gown is based on a dress from ca

One of the first things I ever embroidered was an image of two ‘horned rabbits’ from Johann Daniel Meyer’s 1752 Representations of all kinds of animals with their skeletons

– in such a creation

This parasol is based on a design from Bloomingdale Bros

Dress #111: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Rabbit This hand-stitched Edwardian paper gownThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the Spiral dinner dress created by Charles James in ca. 1950; the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 167). The design uses asymmetrical draping, and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self covered flat buttons at the back left. Ive used a shimmering brown decorative paper to stand in for the brown silk faille of the dress