Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets The octopus is 6 inches

The octopus is 6 inches across

patterned with cranes

acrylic rhinestone

held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession 700-1864)

Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets The octopus is 6 inchesThis 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