Dress #116: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Corset metal bead

metal bead

a British day dress from 1885

The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989

The dress is made from chiyogami (Japanese paper)

Dress #116: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Corset metal beadThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a brown silk cocktail dress made by Charles James between 1952 1954 as a sample for New York ready to wear manufacturer Samuel Winston; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2013. 341). That relationship eventually ended in a lawsuit for breach of contract, as James was convinced that Winston was stealing his designs for one of his other labels, without crediting James. James