Re: Something wicked this way comes...


All nice choices, Kate!

I don't think there's any one garment that "has it all" for me,
but I love the drape of the back of this French gown:

<http://tinyurl.com/glqt>

Opps! All I get is a strange pink page with no frock on it!

Try http://tinyurl.com/g5b56 and if that fails, patch together
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=8&viewm
ode=0&item=C.I.54.70a,%20b

or search for accession "C.I.54.70a, b "

As far as the Vionnet skirt, this is not the NYT site, but
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/908186/vionnet-black-plisse-silk-crepe-skirt

The basic draping is surprisingly easy to do, and it hangs beautifully
even in muslin.

Kay







The draping
of Isabel Toledo's "kangaroo dress":
http://dept.kent.edu/museum/costume/bonc/4subjectsearch/designers/greek.htm
(a greyish dress in three views, about halfway down the page, below the
purple, rather blocky dress) (in fact, I really like most Toledos...
take a look at the orange dress a bit farther down, only in profile)

Oh, yummy!

And Vionnet's bias circular skirt... best photo I could find on the net
is Steichen's here:
http://tinyurl.com/kkmgt

Damn! NYT won't let me in either!

Kay




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