Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey McCord an evening dress by ‘Thurn’

an evening dress by ‘Thurn’ of New York and Paris from 1920-1925

This parasol is based on a design from Bloomingdale Bros

This version used a Nepalese lokta paper with subtle shimmer

which is the usual way the metacircle is employed

The boot is 4 inches tall

Dress #56.2: Charles James cocktail dress in blue-grey McCord an evening dress by ‘Thurn’This 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