Dress #055.2: Charles James ‘Petal’ cocktail dress in green Men This hand-stitched paper dress is

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Dress #055.2: Charles James ‘Petal’ cocktail dress in green Men This hand-stitched paper dress isThis hand stitched paper dress is based on the Petal cocktail dress, created by Charles James in 1951; the original, in pale green silk, is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 334). In my version, pale green mizutama tissue layered over a shimmering pale green paper to give depth to the colour. Charles James produced a number of different versions of his Petal dress, both as a ballgown, and the shorter cocktail length seen