Dress #097: Victorian dress in black Men's jacket forms the satin sash

forms the satin sash

This skull features twenty-one little metallic teeth

75 inches tall

The first Petal dress was created in 1949 for socialite and social activist Millicent Rogers

Japanese tissue and cotton floss on cotton paper

Dress #097: Victorian dress in black Men's jacket forms the satin sashWhen I first saw this ca. 1885 travelling ensemble in an Augusta Auctions catalogue from 2024, I had two thoughts: This is the gothest thing Ive ever seen, and; Sadly, all that black on black wont translate well into stitched paper. I was correct about the first, but it turns out I was wrong about the second! The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any