Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Rabbit Drawn and Described Immediately from

Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature

embellished with glass beads

Japanese tissue stands in for both the lace overlay on the bust

Based on an American dress from the Wexler & Abraham [Wechsler & Abraham] department store in Brooklyn

This hand-stitched dress is made from shimmering pale yellow Japanese paper

Dress #073: 1920s evening dress in coral brocade. 2018 Rabbit Drawn and Described Immediately fromThis hand stitched coral dress is based on an American dress by the Bergdorf Goodman Department Store, from ca. 1929, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. To imitate the cold and coral brocade of the original, I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern patterned chiyogami paper. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. After a great deal of thought about how to best portray the way the