Monstrous Seahorse in Lime Green & Gold McCord It was the severe lines

It was the severe lines that attracted me to this dress

a knight of Jerusalem

an evening dress by ‘Thurn’ of New York and Paris from 1920-1925

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on a day dress from the early 1880s

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Monstrous Seahorse in Lime Green & Gold McCord It was the severe linesYou are probably looking at this creature and thinking, Judith, thats clearly a Hippocampus, and you would be correct! But the book I found it in called it Equus marinus monstrosus, which translates as Monstrous seahorse. And who can resist a name like that? The book is the delightfully named Monstrorum historia, or History of Monsters, by Ulisse Aldrovandi; it dates from 1642. My monstrous seahorse is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch