Dress #074: Edwardian dress in ivory and black. 2016 Hedgehog and can often be found

and can often be found lecturing nests of younger turtles

It’s styled to fit over a bustled skirt

and accented with glass beads

after the abundance of whites in the earlier part of the Regency/Empire era

Dress #074: Edwardian dress in ivory and black. 2016 Hedgehog and can often be foundThis hand stitched Edwardian paper dress is based on an English evening gown by Lucile from 1913. With dresses like this, Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon) says that she 'loosed upon a startled London draped skirts that opened to reveal the legs'. The dress was worn by Miss Heather Firbank of Mayfair, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum holds over a hundred pieces from Miss Firbanks wardrobe. Miss Firbank would have been a contemporary of Downton