Dress #009: Regency dress in mint and gold: rear view. 2014 18th century dress Based on a 1792 illustration

Based on a 1792 illustration of Pinguinaria patachonica (Penguin) from ‘Musei Leveriani Explicatio

Frances Cashel Hoey

Miss Heather Firbank of Mayfair

or the exaggerated curves and nipped in waist of the Victorian era

a French robe à la française from 1760-1770

Dress #009: Regency dress in mint and gold: rear view. 2014 18th century dress Based on a 1792 illustrationBased on Victoria & Albert Museum accession T. 795 1913, a British evening dress from about 1810. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper, which means that it will pop right into any commercial frame in that size, and be ready to hang on your wall. Materials: Chiyogami, Japanese tissue, and cotton floss on cotton paper.