Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog straight out of a Jane

straight out of a Jane Austen novel

The dress is made from Japanese paper in a berry shade

The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres

Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon) says that she 'loosed upon a startled London draped skirts that opened to reveal the legs'

This darling little dress is made from Nepalese paper

Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog straight out of a JaneThis 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