Dress #062.3: Charles James cocktail dress in wine Raccoon This particular style was found

This particular style was found in S

They can be found happily hanging out (though you wouldn’t know it to look at them) in shallow lagoons

with tiny shell shapes standing in for the applique along the bottom of the dress

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

summer 1890 catalogue

Dress #062.3: Charles James cocktail dress in wine Raccoon This particular style was foundThis hand stitched wine red paper dress is based on a cocktail dress designed by British born American designer Charles James in 1950. It is made from Japanese Kiku paper. Hand embroidered lines imitate the seams and folds of the dress. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. The original dress is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2009. 300. 180. Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s