Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets Daisy Buchanan could have danced

Daisy Buchanan could have danced the Charleston in this little dress

patterned with cranes

acrylic rhinestone

stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny glass beads

The octopus is 6 inches across

Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets Daisy Buchanan could have dancedThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a silk evening suit designed by Charles James in 1951, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 214a, b). Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s and 1950s, and is considered by the Met to be the only American to work in the true couture tradition. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that