Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit Victorian dress surviving late 17th century formal

surviving late 17th century formal gown

and train are in ecru

Materials: Japanese & Korean paper

embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones

a tailor working in Montreal

Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit Victorian dress surviving late 17th century formalThis hand stitched paper ensemble is based on a style of skirt suit called a tailormade. The original suit, made of bottle green wool with velvet lapels, dates from ca. 1900 and is held by the McCord Stewart Museum (accession M977. 44. 2. 1 2). Tailormades were typically made of wool, and fashioned after a mans jacket; they would typically be worn with a shirtwaist, also based on mens clothing. This suit was made by William St. Pierre, a tailor