Dress #067.2: Flapper dress in oranges. 2017 VAM a British dress from 1838-1840

a British dress from 1838-1840

Turner and Boldero

The original dress is held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (accession 1936-23-2)

By the 1820s colour was coming into fashion again

featuring an elegant beard and moustache

Dress #067.2: Flapper dress in oranges. 2017 VAM a British dress from 1838-1840This hand stitched orange and red dress is based on an evening dancing dress designed by Voisin of Paris in ca. 1925. The dress in made from orange red papers, embedded with shiny red and orange rayon fibres. The fringes hang loose from the body of the dress. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100% cotton paper. The original dress is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T. 139&A 1967). Phryne Fisher or Daisy Buchanan would have loved dancing