Dress #125: Late Georgian walking dress in brown Giraffe The original dress is made

The original dress is made from a yellow silk brocade imported from India

and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self-covered flat buttons at the back left

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

and John Lillie

75 inches tall

Dress #125: Late Georgian walking dress in brown Giraffe The original dress is madeThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a ca. 1935 American walking dress in vibrant red brown silk; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 26. 250. 1a, b). Waistlines were still high in the 1830s, while skirts had expanded into large bell shapes, showing off the ankles. The gigot sleeves of the upper arm are gathered into tight sleeves from below the elbows to the wrists. A detachable pelerine, accented with a lace