Dress #112: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Beaver held by the FIDM Museum

held by the FIDM Museum (accession 2014

The turquoise is a decorative machine-made paper

638&A-1964)

stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

This darling little pinup dress is made from Korean hanji paper in pink and purple flowers on a pale lime green background

Dress #112: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Beaver held by the FIDM MuseumThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the Spiral dinner dress created by Charles James in ca. 1950; the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 167). The design uses asymmetrical draping, and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self covered flat buttons at the back left. Ive used a shimmering brown decorative paper to stand in for the brown silk faille of the dress