Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit VAM 638&A-1964)

638&A-1964)

accession 2009

Based on Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 2013

and ivory silk taffeta

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

Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit VAM 638&A-1964)This 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