Hippopotamus in Lilac 18th century dress a 1950 dress designed by

a 1950 dress designed by Charles James

This hand stitched Victorian paper dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads

and cotton floss on cotton papern

and is based on an American dress from Strawbridge & Clothier's Quarterly' (vol

and applied in a new way and with reason’

Hippopotamus in Lilac 18th century dress a 1950 dress designed byOne of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The