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Show off your inner showgirl with a burlesque corset and pasties
The piece is based on an America dress from ca
The original is made from laurel green moiré silk
such as this dress
Based on a 1774 illustration of Bradypus torquatus (Brazilian three-toed sloth) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’
Dress #113: Charles James dinner dress in golden brown Rhinoceros Show off your inner showgirlThis 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
