Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag but I had to find

but I had to find the perfect vintage illustration

and the skirt is constructed in a single piece that wraps around the hips and features three self-covered flat buttons at the back left

This ostrich is based on an illustration from Johann Daniel Meyer’s 1748 book Angenehmer Und Nützlicher Zeit-Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender

The original dress is held by the Kyoto Costume Institute (accession AC9206 95-7)

the original is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

Winged & four-legged dragon in greens and gold Handbag but I had to findThis is no ordinary dragon; it is based on an illustration described (in Latin) thusly: This is that winged and four legged dragon, memorable to all ages, which Deodatus de Gozon, a knight of Jerusalem, cut down on the island of Rhodes by the stratagem we have described, and who, because of the beneficence bestowed on the island, was afterwards created a great master of the order. The book I found it in, by Athanasius Kircher and dating from 1678, has