Dress #090: Charles James evening gown in shimmering green Men with a Description of the

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I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern-patterned chiyogami paper

a Peter Pan collar

Based on a 1774 illustration of Rhinoceros Unicornus (Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

and the lace edging of the top

Dress #090: Charles James evening gown in shimmering green Men with a Description of theThis hand stitched dress is based on a green silk satin evening gown designed by Charles James in 1954. I chose shimmering green paper, full of shiny rayon fibres, to imitate the silk. 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 original dress is held by the Museum at FIT (accession 91. 241. 134). The dress is 6