Dress #116: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Corset This darling little pinup dress

This darling little pinup dress is made from Nepalese lokta paper in a purple flower print

metal bead

The dress is made from chiyogami (Japanese paper)

and the Bahama Islands’

a British day dress from 1885

Dress #116: Charles James cocktail dress in brown Corset This darling little pinup dressThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a brown silk cocktail dress made by Charles James between 1952 1954 as a sample for New York ready to wear manufacturer Samuel Winston; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2013. 341). That relationship eventually ended in a lawsuit for breach of contract, as James was convinced that Winston was stealing his designs for one of his other labels, without crediting James. James