Monstrous Seahorse in Pink, White, and Silver Costume dress The design uses asymmetrical draping

The design uses asymmetrical draping

to Conform to the Legislation Making the Effects of Alcohol and Other Narcotics upon the Human System a Mandatory Study in Public Schools

cut from paper and stitched by hand

and appeared in his book 'Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet' in 1906

Like many dresses of the time period

Monstrous Seahorse in Pink, White, and Silver Costume dress The design uses asymmetrical drapingYou are probably looking at this creature and thinking, Judith, thats clearly a Hippocampus, and you would be correct! But the book I found it in called it Equus marinus monstrosus, which translates as Monstrous seahorse. And who can resist a name like that? The book is the delightfully named Monstrorum historia, or History of Monsters, by Ulisse Aldrovandi; it dates from 1642. My monstrous seahorse is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch