Dress #118: Charles James ballgown in pale blue and blue-green bestiary This hand-stitched Edwardian paper dress

This hand-stitched Edwardian paper dress is based on an English evening gown by Lucile from 1913

The piece is based on a dress from ca

whether it's the flat funnel shape of the Tudor and Georgian periods

Armadillos are naturally awesome

and was created by thermally setting plastic boning on a custom four-lobed dress form built by James

Dress #118: Charles James ballgown in pale blue and blue-green bestiary This hand-stitched Edwardian paper dressThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a ballgown created by Charles James between 1950 1952; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession C. I. 65. 36. 1). For this ballgown, James took inspiration from the late nineteenth century with swags of pale blue silk satin gathered at the front and back over a blue green silk taffeta underskirt, forming a miniature bustle. Charles James is considered by the Met to be the only