Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog The body of the dress

The body of the dress is made from a Japanese paper embedded with strands of shiny rayon fibres

The original shoe is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession 270&A-1891)

This darling little dress is made from Nepalese paper

Lucile (aka Lady Duff Gordon) says that she 'loosed upon a startled London draped skirts that opened to reveal the legs'

Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog The body of the dressThis pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread, and is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on a dress from: Challamel, Augustin, Frances Cashel Hoey, and John Lillie, 'The history of fashion in France; or, The dress of women from the Gallo Roman period to the present time'. London: Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1882. The dress is six inches tall, stitched