Sweater in Red, Orange, and Gold Tudor and Elizabethan dress or using custom dress forms

or using custom dress forms that combined the measurements of his customer with the fanciful contours used to sculpt the dresses into the desired shapes

Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s and 1950s

This is based on an illustration from Richard Lydekker & Philip Lutley Sclater’s ‘The Royal Natural History’ from 1893

and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T

Sweater in Red, Orange, and Gold Tudor and Elizabethan dress or using custom dress formsEvery time I see leg o' mutton sleeves, I think of Anne Shirley and her longing for puffed sleeves. This sweater is based on a golf jersey design from the 1898 Spencer, Turner and Boldero, Ltd. Catalog. Can an you imagine playing golf in a corset and giant sleeves? The sweater is 3. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang