Dress #057: Late Victorian dinner dress in gold and bronze. 2018 Sloth The body of the dress

The body of the dress is made from Kiku gold Japanese paper overlaid with Seikaiha watermark tissue

The simple dress is highlighted with a wrapped silver embellishment

is straight out of a Jane Austen novel or Regency romance

as it differs from the swags of fabric often found all over Victorian bustle dresses (although I love those

Dress #057: Late Victorian dinner dress in gold and bronze. 2018 Sloth The body of the dressThis hand stitched late Victorian paper gown is based on a dinner dress designed by the famed Charles Frederick Worth in ca. 1892. The body of the dress is made from Kiku gold Japanese paper overlaid with Seikaiha watermark tissue, while the sleeves are in a metallic Japanese paper in a purpled bronze shade, again with tissue overlays to imitate lace. The sleeves are in the gigot or leg o mutton style coveted by Anne Shirley. Hand embroidered lines