Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit VAM This darling little pinup dress

This darling little pinup dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper patterned ingold and silver starburst flowers on a lime green background

Penn: Strawbridge and Clothier

The simple dress is highlighted with a wrapped silver embellishment

and ivory silk taffeta

Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit VAM This darling little pinup dressThis hand stitched paper ensemble is based on a style of skirt suit called a tailormade. The original suit, made of bottle green wool with velvet lapels, dates from ca. 1900 and is held by the McCord Stewart Museum (accession M977. 44. 2. 1 2). Tailormades were typically made of wool, and fashioned after a mans jacket; they would typically be worn with a shirtwaist, also based on mens clothing. This suit was made by William St. Pierre, a tailor