Dress #097: Victorian dress in black Men's jacket Japanese tissue and cotton floss

Japanese tissue and cotton floss on cotton paper

and was created by thermally setting plastic boning on a custom four-lobed dress form built by James

my stitched paper hedgies don’t need to be fed

The first Petal dress was created in 1949 for socialite and social activist Millicent Rogers

The body of the dress is made from Kin Sunago Japanese paper in brown with flecks of gold and silver

Dress #097: Victorian dress in black Men's jacket Japanese tissue and cotton flossWhen I first saw this ca. 1885 travelling ensemble in an Augusta Auctions catalogue from 2024, I had two thoughts: This is the gothest thing Ive ever seen, and; Sadly, all that black on black wont translate well into stitched paper. I was correct about the first, but it turns out I was wrong about the second! The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any