Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Turtle a French gown from the

a French gown from the 1770s

It features the high waist and flowing drapery of the early 1910s

then neither will I

Hand-embroidered lines imitate the folds of the dress

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989

Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Turtle a French gown from theThis pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread, and is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on a dress from: Challamel, Augustin, Frances Cashel Hoey, and John Lillie, 'The history of fashion in France; or, The dress of women from the Gallo Roman period to the present time'. London: Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1882. The dress is six inches tall, stitched