Dress #125: Late Georgian walking dress in brown Giraffe The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds over a hundred pieces from Miss Firbank’s wardrobe

The original dress is made from a yellow silk brocade imported from India

I layered Japanese Mizutama watermark tissue over a fern-patterned chiyogami paper

and John Lillie

This hand-stitched men’s outfit is based on Simplicity sewing pattern 5881 from 1973

Dress #125: Late Georgian walking dress in brown Giraffe The Victoria and Albert MuseumThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a ca. 1935 American walking dress in vibrant red brown silk; the original is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 26. 250. 1a, b). Waistlines were still high in the 1830s, while skirts had expanded into large bell shapes, showing off the ankles. The gigot sleeves of the upper arm are gathered into tight sleeves from below the elbows to the wrists. A detachable pelerine, accented with a lace