Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit Victorian dress a tailor working in Montreal

a tailor working in Montreal

embellished with tiny acrylic rhinestones

Glass beads stand in for the buttons that run down each side of the bodice

and train are in ecru

Japanese tissue and cotton floss on cotton paper

Dress #128: Late Victorian skirt suit Victorian dress a tailor working in MontrealThis 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