and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self-covered flat buttons at the back left
but I had to find the perfect vintage illustration
held by LACMA (accession M
The original dress is held by the Kyoto Costume Institute (accession AC9206 95-7)
cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described
Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag and the skirt is constructedThis is no ordinary dragon; it is based on an illustration described (in Latin) thusly: This is that winged and four legged dragon, memorable to all ages, which Deodatus de Gozon, a knight of Jerusalem, cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described, and who, because of the beneficence bestowed on the island, was afterwards created a great master of the order. The book I found it in, by Athanasius Kircher and dating from 1678, has