Hippopotamus in Lilac Polar bear The gigot sleeves of the

The gigot sleeves of the upper arm are gathered into tight sleeves from below the elbows to the wrists

held by the Museum at FIT (accession P85

In addition

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on the ‘Balloon’ at-home dress in black silk faille

The dress in made from orange-red papers

Hippopotamus in Lilac Polar bear The gigot sleeves of theOne of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The