Hippopotamus in Bronze on Blue Armadillo The body of the dress

The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres

with couched stitches and glass beads decorating the neckline and the bottom of the tabard

Thorpe’s ca

and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T

The original dress is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession CIRC

Hippopotamus in Bronze on Blue Armadillo The body of the dressOne of the funniest 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