Ostrich in pink and silver LACMA This hand-stitched paper dress is

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on a day dress from the early 1880s

both as a ballgown

25 inches wide

from Baird’s ‘Mammals of North America: The description of species based chiefly on the collections in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution’

Ostrich in pink and silver LACMA This hand-stitched paper dress isThis ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on land and in