Dress #084: 1920s dress in wine and gold Polar bear Marsh & Co

Marsh & Co

Based on an 1824 illustration of the Giraffe femelle from ‘Histoire Naturelle Des Mammifères : Avec Des Figures Originales

so they are pretty hard to improve on

The piece is based on an American dress from ca

and 9 yards of embroidery’

Dress #084: 1920s dress in wine and gold Polar bear Marsh & CoThis hand stitched paper 1920s dress is made from wine and gold chiyogami (Japanese paper) chosen to echo the Bordeaux wool of the original The design is based on an afternoon dress from Berthe Hermance, as shown in the December 1926 issue of Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustre des Arts dcoratifs appliqus la femme. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that