The Idea and Inspiration:
This started out as this Poiret dress, but didn’t look good in the fabrics I had.
So it just grew from there. Basically, I wanted something that was historically accurate, and that embodied the spirit of Poiret’s designs.
Fabric and Materials:
Vintage tussah silk recycled from a kimono, raw silk.
The Dress Diary:
The dress at the Pompeii to Paris talk
The dress at Pompeii to Paris II
Gallery:
Aloha, Leimomi.
I like the fashions that are just before the flapper era -in between the 1913 and 1920 dresses in your portfolio. I saw it in an older BBC television series called the House of Eliott. The lines were simple and they made use of the bias cut for skirts and jackets. I liked it because even the stout figure was flattered. Does the style in between 1913 and 1920 have a name I could use to research the fashions?
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