Dress #125: Late Georgian walking dress in brown Giraffe 75 inches tall

75 inches tall

I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern-patterned chiyogami paper

they display it with a white underdress

This hand-stitched men’s outfit is based on Simplicity sewing pattern 5881 from 1973

Dress #125: Late Georgian walking dress in brown Giraffe 75 inches tallThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a ca. 1935 American walking dress in vibrant red brown silk; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 26. 250. 1a, b). Waistlines were still high in the 1830s, while skirts had expanded into large bell shapes, showing off the ankles. The gigot sleeves of the upper arm are gathered into tight sleeves from below the elbows to the wrists. A detachable pelerine, accented with a lace