held by the McCord Museum (accession M982
It is based on an American dress from the early 1880s
and Capacity for Domestication of the Antilocapra and Cervidae of North America’
The fringes hang loose from the body of the dress
the originals were of painted kid leather
Dress #027: Victorian dress in purples. 2015 Penguin held by the McCord MuseumBased on a dress from Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly: vol 2, no. 1 Spring 1883. Philadelphia, Penn: Strawbridge and Clothier, 1883. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall. Materials: Chiyogami, Japanese tissue, other paper, and cotton floss on cotton paper