Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Costume dress held by the Museum at

held by the Museum at FIT (accession P85

The dress was worn by a debutante

It is stitched onto cold-pressed 100% cotton paper

This hand-stitched paper dress from the early 1920s is constructed of shimmering wine Japanese paper

By the 1920s they had stores in Nice

Dress #095: Charles James evening suit in blue Costume dress held by the Museum atThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a silk evening suit designed by Charles James in 1951, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 214a, b). Charles James produced some of the quintessential dress shapes of the 1940s and 1950s, and is considered by the Met to be the only American to work in the true couture tradition. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that