Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit Victorian dress embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones

embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones

new synthetic dyes enabled the use of bold colours in delicate fabrics

It features the high waist and flowing drapery of the early 1910s

Japanese tissue and cotton floss on cotton paper

Materials: Japanese & Korean paper

Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit Victorian dress embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestonesThis hand stitched paper ensemble is based on a style of skirt suit called a tailormade. The original suit, made of bottle green wool with velvet lapels, dates from ca. 1900 and is held by the McCord Stewart Museum (accession M977. 44. 2. 1 2). Tailormades were typically made of wool, and fashioned after a mans jacket; they would typically be worn with a shirtwaist, also based on mens clothing. This suit was made by William St. Pierre, a tailor