False Chanterelle in Mauve and Purple Flowers on Lime Seal This hand-stitched paper dress is

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on a brown silk cocktail dress made by Charles James between 1952-1954 as a sample for New York ready-to-wear manufacturer Samuel Winston

The piece is based on an evening dress by ‘Thurn’ of New York and Paris

a British evening dress from about 1810

I finally found it in Richard Lydekker & Philip Lutley Sclater’s ‘The Royal Natural History’ from 1893

False Chanterelle in Mauve and Purple Flowers on Lime Seal This hand-stitched paper dress isThese chanterelles are identified as poisonous 'Cantharellus aurantiacus' (aka the False Chanterelle), but also as Golden Chanterelles, which are not poisonous. Will these kill you? Who knows? Every mushroom is technically edible. Once. The chanterelles are based on an illustration from the 1911 The Americana; a Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World. The