Dress #111: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Rabbit This parasol is based on

This parasol is based on a design from Bloomingdale Bros

Materials: Japanese katazome paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

According to costume historian Timothy Long

the circular hole forms the waist

The belt is striped

Dress #111: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Rabbit This parasol is based onThis 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