Dress #118: Charles James ballgown in pale blue and blue-green Skulls porcelain figurines

porcelain figurines

designed by Michele Clapton

Available in a variety of colours and papers

accented with silver paper and an acrylic rhinestone

Dress #118: Charles James ballgown in pale blue and blue-green Skulls porcelain figurinesThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a ballgown created by Charles James between 1950 1952; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession C. I. 65. 36. 1). For this ballgown, James took inspiration from the late nineteenth century with swags of pale blue silk satin gathered at the front and back over a blue green silk taffeta underskirt, forming a miniature bustle. Charles James is considered by the Met to be the only