Dress #071.4: 1920s dress in black and gold. 2019 VAM Spring 1883)

Spring 1883)

This hand-stitched dress in based on a gown from the Austrian House of Drécoll

25 inches wide

The body of the dress is made from Kin Sunago Japanese paper in brown with flecks of gold and silver

Dress #071.4: 1920s dress in black and gold. 2019 VAM Spring 1883)This hand stitched black and gold dress is based on an American or European gown from ca. 1928, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. The dress hangs in two tiers, with each edged in Japanese tissue to imitate the floating layers of the original. Japanese chiyogami paper in gold on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100%