Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey McCord This version used a Nepalese

This version used a Nepalese lokta paper with subtle shimmer

or Brush Rabbit

which is the usual way the metacircle is employed

and appeared in his book 'Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet' in 1906

Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey McCord This version used a NepaleseThis hand stitched paper dress is based on a cocktail dress created by Charles James in 1949; the original, in blue grey silk, is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession 2009. 300. 200). My first version of this cocktail dress used a black paper patterned with gold; Ive since become much more obsessed with using paper that evokes the original fabric. This version used a Nepalese lokta paper with subtle shimmer. Charles James is considered by