Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets and cotton floss on cotton

and cotton floss on cotton papern

teacup and saucer from the 1950s or 1960s

stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny glass beads

Materials: Korean paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

Materials: Japanese katazome paper

Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets and cotton floss on cottonThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a silk evening suit designed by Charles James in 1951, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 214a, b). Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s and 1950s, and is considered by the Met to be the only American to work in the true couture tradition. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that