Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets Materials: Korean paper and cotton

Materials: Korean paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny glass beads

patterned with cranes

Materials: Japanese katazome paper

The octopus is 6 inches across

Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets Materials: Korean paper and cottonThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a silk evening suit designed by Charles James in 1951, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 214a, b). Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s and 1950s, and is considered by the Met to be the only American to work in the true couture tradition. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that