Dress #074: Edwardian dress in ivory and black. 2016 Anteater This Edwardian dress is made

This Edwardian dress is made from shimmering lilac Japanese paper

they are embellished with glass beads and a sequin

I couldn’t call myself a Torontonian if I didn’t have a raccoon in my collection

It is made from black chiyogami (Japanese) paper that is accented with a pattern of gold twigs

But you probably can’t tell

Dress #074: Edwardian dress in ivory and black. 2016 Anteater This Edwardian dress is madeThis hand stitched Edwardian paper dress is based on an English evening gown by Lucile from 1913. With dresses like this, Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon) says that she 'loosed upon a startled London draped skirts that opened to reveal the legs'. The dress was worn by Miss Heather Firbank of Mayfair, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum holds over a hundred pieces from Miss Firbanks wardrobe. Miss Firbank would have been a contemporary of Downton