Dress #071.4: 1920s dress in black and gold. 2019 Sloth 5 inches wide

5 inches wide

This hand-stitched paper 1920s dress is made from wine and gold chiyogami (Japanese paper) chosen to echo the Bordeaux wool of the original The design is based on an afternoon dress from Berthe Hermance

Accurately Coloured from Nature

Based on a costume from The Tudors

This hand-stitched dress in based on a gown from the Austrian House of Drécoll

Dress #071.4: 1920s dress in black and gold. 2019 Sloth 5 inches wideThis hand stitched black and gold dress is based on an American or European gown from ca. 1928, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. The dress hangs in two tiers, with each edged in Japanese tissue to imitate the floating layers of the original. Japanese chiyogami paper in gold on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100%