Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Mid-century dress a thin paper with an

a thin paper with an embossed pattern of tiny flowers

patterned with cranes

highlighted with glass beads

This jacket design is from Debenham & Freebody’s autumn 1874 catalogue

is perfect for a night spent dancing the Charleston

Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Mid-century dress a thin paper with anThis hand stitched coral dress is based on an American dress by the Bergdorf Goodman Department Store, from ca. 1929, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. To imitate the cold and coral brocade of the original, I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern patterned chiyogami paper. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. After a great deal of thought about how to best portray the way the