Dress #050: Edwardian evening gown in silver and white. 2018 Polar bear After a great deal of

After a great deal of thought about how to best portray the way the underskirt was visible below and from behind the split front panel

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By the 1820s colour was coming into fashion again

The dress is made from Korean hanji tissue laid over solid hanji

I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern-patterned chiyogami paper

Dress #050: Edwardian evening gown in silver and white. 2018 Polar bear After a great deal ofThis Edwardian dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper in a silver floral motif on white, overlaid with Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue and accented with silver; It is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on an English dress from 1909, by Pickett of Saville Row, London, and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T. 33 1960). The dress was worn by a debutante, Miss Heather Firbank of Mayfair, London, likely