Dress #050.2: Edwardian evening gown in lilac and silver. 2018 VAM the style popular throughout the

the style popular throughout the Victorian era

This bewhiskered beaver is made from orange and gold Nepalese paper and features a gold glass bead eye

Tiny ovals have been cut out of the collar in imitation of the Elizabethan styling of the jacket

full of shiny rayon fibres

Dress #050.2: Edwardian evening gown in lilac and silver. 2018 VAM the style popular throughout theThis Edwardian dress is made from shimmering lilac Japanese chiyogami paper, overlaid with Japanese tissue and accented with silver; It is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on an English dress from 1909, by Pickett of Saville Row, London, and is held by the Victoria & Albert Museum (accession T. 33 1960). The dress was worn by a debutante, Miss Heather Firbank of Mayfair, London, likely during her first Society Season. Miss