Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets Daisy Buchanan could have danced

Daisy Buchanan could have danced the Charleston in this little dress

patterned with cranes

stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny glass beads

This corset is based on a design from the 1893-1984 fall and winter catalogue of Boston store Jordan

Materials: Japanese katazome paper

Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Shirtwaists sweaters and jackets Daisy Buchanan could have dancedThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a silk evening suit designed by Charles James in 1951, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 214a, b). Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s and 1950s, and is considered by the Met to be the only American to work in the true couture tradition. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that