Dress #109: Charles James evening dress in silver and black Tudor and Elizabethan dress an English silk brocade day

an English silk brocade day dress from ca

Miss Firbank would have been a contemporary of Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary Crawley

all that black-on-black won’t translate well into stitched paper

a British visiting dress from ca

the inner circle is shifted away from the centre

Dress #109: Charles James evening dress in silver and black Tudor and Elizabethan dress an English silk brocade dayThis hand stitched paper dress is based on an evening dress created by Charles James in 1950 1951; the original is held by the Chicago History Museum (accession 1960. 487a). According to costume historian Timothy Long, on a visit to the Museum Charles James identified this dress as being originally created for Marjorie Merriweather Post. The Museum itself identifies this as having been worn by the donor, Mrs. William O. Hunt. The shape is a precursor