Dress #071: 1920s dress in black and silver. 2016 Les Modes Just look at the cute

Just look at the cute stompy feet on this rhinoceros

London: Low

Based on a 1774 illustration of Rhinoceros Unicornus (Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros) from ‘Die Såugthiere in Abbildungen Nach Der Natur’

straight out of a Jane Austen novel

Dress #071: 1920s dress in black and silver. 2016 Les Modes Just look at the cuteThis hand stitched black and silver 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. Japanese chiyogami paper in silver filigree on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny silver and black glass beads. It is stitched onto cold