Dress #062.3: Charles James cocktail dress in wine Raccoon stitched by hand on 5x7

stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

The dress is hand stitched on cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

The fringes are simulated with Mizutama watermark tissue

summer 1890 catalogue

This particular style was found in S

Dress #062.3: Charles James cocktail dress in wine Raccoon stitched by hand on 5x7This hand stitched wine red paper dress is based on a cocktail dress designed by British born American designer Charles James in 1950. It is made from Japanese Kiku paper. Hand embroidered lines imitate the seams and folds of the dress. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2009. 300. 180. Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s