Dress #114: Charles James dinner dress in golden brown Teacup coming together in an oversized

coming together in an oversized bow at the front of the dress

James took inspiration from the late nineteenth century with swags of pale blue silk satin gathered at the front and back over a blue-green silk taffeta underskirt

But the book I found it in called it ‘Equus marinus monstrosus’

Buenos Aires

Dress #114: Charles James dinner dress in golden brown Teacup coming together in an oversizedThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the dinner dress created by Charles James in 1952; the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 213a, b). Charles James uses spiral draping to wrap a metacircle around a narrow underskirt. The form is maintained using the natural stiffness of the brown taffeta. Charles James is considered by the Met to be the only American to work in the true couture tradition. His dresses were