Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit jackalope This darling little pinup dress

This darling little pinup dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper in silver dots on a purple background

The company was known for producing women’s fashions in the combination of classical

stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on an English day dress from 1835-1840

Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit jackalope This darling little pinup dressThis 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