Dress #071: 1920s dress in black and silver. 2016 Les Modes Materials: Korean and Japanese paper

Materials: Korean and Japanese paper

The body of the dress is made from Kin Sunago Japanese paper in brown with flecks of gold and silver

straight out of a Jane Austen novel

the dress also includes a tassel hanging from a trio of beads

Dress #071: 1920s dress in black and silver. 2016 Les Modes Materials: Korean and Japanese paperThis hand stitched black and silver dress is based on an American or European gown from ca. 1928, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. The dress hangs in two tiers, with each edged in Japanese tissue to imitate the floating layers of the original. Japanese chiyogami paper in silver filigree on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny silver and black glass beads. It is stitched onto cold