Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog held by the Metropolitan Museum

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009

The dress is made from Japanese paper in a berry shade

held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 1989

straight out of a Jane Austen novel

Dress #036: Elizabethan dress in pink and white. 2015 Hedgehog held by the Metropolitan MuseumThis pink and white Elizabethan dress is made from Japanese paper embellished with glass beads and metallic thread, and is hand stitched on cold pressed 100% cotton paper. It is based on a dress from: Challamel, Augustin, Frances Cashel Hoey, and John Lillie, 'The history of fashion in France; or, The dress of women from the Gallo Roman period to the present time'. London: Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1882. The dress is six inches tall, stitched