Dress #081.2: Edwardian dress in black with brown belt. Catalogue The anteater is 4

The anteater is 4

Miss Firbank would have been a contemporary of Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary Crawley

The dress is hand stitched on cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

so they are pretty hard to improve on

Dress #081.2: Edwardian dress in black with brown belt. Catalogue The anteater is 4This hand stitched dress in based on a gown from the Austrian House of Drcoll, created around 1912 1913. The bodice is made from two layers of tissue, in black and off white, over a camisole cut from gold and white floral Japanese chiyogami paper. The draping skirt, with its pointed train epitomizing the highest style of the time, is cut from black Nepalese paper. Stitched lines highlight the lines and folds of the dress. The original dress is held by