Dress #111: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Gallery Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton

Materials: Nepalese paper and cotton floss on cotton paper

and a sweetheart neckline

at the time he was working with neoclassical silhouettes designed for a slim

Or older turtles

an American evening dress from 1893

Dress #111: Charles James dinner dress in shimmering brown Gallery Materials: Nepalese paper and cottonThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the Spiral dinner dress created by Charles James in ca. 1950; the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 167). The design uses asymmetrical draping, 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. Ive used a shimmering brown decorative paper to stand in for the brown silk faille of the dress