Dress #123 Regency dress in ‘Clarence blue’ McCord This hand-stitched Edwardian paper gown

This hand-stitched Edwardian paper gown is based on a French evening dress designed by Paul Poiret between 1912-1914

with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling

designed by Gabriella Pescucci

Materials: Chiyogami (Japanese) paper

and cotton floss on cotton papern

Dress #123 Regency dress in ‘Clarence blue’ McCord This hand-stitched Edwardian paper gownThis hand stitched paper dress is based on an American dress from ca. 1818; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2016. 181). The dress is in Clarence blue, named after the favourite colour of the Duchess of Clarence, who married the future King William IV in 1818. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that