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This darling little pinup dress is made from Japanese chiyogami paper in silver filigree on a bright pink background
the style is known as a robe à la française
It is based on an American dress from the early 1880s
It is made from black chiyogami (Japanese) paper that is accented with a pattern of gold twigs
Hippopotamus in Gold & Silver on Red Parasol This darling little pinup dressOne of my favourite things about old natural history illustrations are the number of animals that were obviously drawn from descriptions, by artists who had never seen the real thing. So many old hippo drawings just looked all wrong, with little tiny heads! I finally found a happy hippo with a properly gigantic head in the 1895 book Brehm's Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools. The
