Dress #050: Edwardian evening gown in silver and white. 2018 Edwardian dress The original dress is held

The original dress is held by the Museum at FIT (accession 2009

Add a manly (yet whimsical) touch to your decor with this stylish head of hair

is made from Edo Kosome Japanese paper

with curving lines of couched floss imitating the piping of the original dress

until I found this delightful (if slightly guilty-looking) specimen in the 1918 book ‘Wild Animals of North America: Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom’

Dress #050: Edwardian evening gown in silver and white. 2018 Edwardian dress The original dress is heldThis Edwardian dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper in a silver floral motif on white, overlaid with Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue and accented with silver; It is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on an English dress from 1909, by Pickett of Saville Row, London, and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T. 33 1960). The dress was worn by a debutante, Miss Heather Firbank of Mayfair, London, likely