Dress #067: Flapper dress in oranges. 2016 Book is not Canadian

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This pink Regency dress is made from Japanese paper

Japanese koubai paper

This darling little pinup dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper patterned in white dotted flowers on a mint green background

Dress #067: Flapper dress in oranges. 2016 Book is not CanadianThis hand stitched orange and red dress is based on an evening dancing dress designed by Voisin of Paris in ca. 1925. The dress in made from orange red papers, embedded with shiny red and orange rayon fibres. The fringes hang loose from the body of the dress. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. The original dress is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T. 139&A 1967). Phryne Fisher or Daisy Buchanan would have loved dancing