Dress #107: Charles James evening gown in green Victorian dress and hem with Japanese tissue

and hem with Japanese tissue and beads

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989

The original is made from laurel green moiré silk

and be ready to hang on your wall

it is hand-stitched in cotton floss onto cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

Dress #107: Charles James evening gown in green Victorian dress and hem with Japanese tissueThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a vibrant green silk satin evening gown created by Charles James in 1954. Both the Museum at FIT (accession 91. 241. 129) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 3522) hold versions of this gown. In addition, the Met has a toile of the dress design in black and white cotton muslin (accession 2009. 300. 796). The original dress uses a variation of the metacircle technique, where the starting