Hippopotamus in Lime Green & Gold 1920s and 1930s dress whether it’s the leg o’

whether it’s the leg o’ mutton or gigot sleeves of the late 1900s or the 1830s type featured here

Materials: Chiyogami and cotton floss on cotton paper

silk floss

In a departure from the often ornate dresses of the time

I was correct about the first

Hippopotamus in Lime Green & Gold 1920s and 1930s dress whether it’s the leg o’One of my favourite 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