Dress #112: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Beaver acrylic sequins

acrylic sequins

until I found this delightful (if slightly guilty-looking) specimen in the 1918 book ‘Wild Animals of North America: Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom’

The turquoise is a decorative machine-made paper

75 inches wide

It is based on an English dress from 1909

Dress #112: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Beaver acrylic sequinsThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the Spiral dinner dress created by Charles James in ca. 1950; the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 167). The design uses asymmetrical draping, and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self covered flat buttons at the back left. Ive used a shimmering brown decorative paper to stand in for the brown silk faille of the dress