Dress #071.3: 1920s dress in black and gold. 2018 Costume dress ' published in London in

' published in London in 1789

glass beads

is made of red silk machine-made net

The original dress features brown silk charmeuse and is cut on the bias

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

Dress #071.3: 1920s dress in black and gold. 2018 Costume dress ' published in London inThis hand stitched black and gold dress is based on an American or European gown from ca. 1928, just when Phryne Fisher was making a splash in St. Kildas, Melbourne. The dress hangs in two tiers, with each edged in Japanese tissue to imitate the floating layers of the original. Nepalese paper in gold scallops on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads. It is stitched onto cold pressed 100%