Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon) says that she 'loosed upon a startled London draped skirts that opened to reveal the legs'
held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989
This darling little dress is made from Nepalese paper
The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres
Available in a variety of colours and papers
Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon)This pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread, and is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on a dress from: Challamel, Augustin, Frances Cashel Hoey, and John Lillie, 'The history of fashion in France; or, The dress of women from the Gallo Roman period to the present time'. London: Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1882. The dress is six inches tall, stitched