Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Parasol full of shiny rayon fibres

full of shiny rayon fibres

and John Lillie

Based on a dress from Fox and Kelly's Fashion Catalogue Illustrated: Fall and Winter 1888-9

The original dress is held by the Museum at FIT (accession 2009

Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Parasol full of shiny rayon fibresThis 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