Dress #071.2: 1920s dress in black and gold. 2017 Burlesque cut from paper and stitched

cut from paper and stitched by hand

This chubby black morel is hand stitched on cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

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Dress #071.2: 1920s dress in black and gold. 2017 Burlesque cut from paper and stitchedThis hand stitched black and gold dress is based on an American or European gown from ca. 1928, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. The dress hangs in two tiers, with each edged in Japanese tissue to imitate the floating layers of the original. Japanese chiyogami paper in gold diamonds on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads. It is stitched onto cold pressed