Dress #099: 1830s dress in laurel green Men's jacket The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds over a hundred pieces from Miss Firbank’s wardrobe

This hand-stitched dress is made from shimmery pink Japanese paper

The pouf of the gigot sleeves has travelled further down the wearer’s arms

Celadon stitches stand in for the embroidered trim

with a striped waistband and large gold and amber buckle

Dress #099: 1830s dress in laurel green Men's jacket The Victoria and Albert MuseumIts hard to resist a giant sleeve, whether its the leg o mutton or gigot sleeves of the late 1900s or the 1830s type featured here, known as la Medicis and lAmadis. This design is based on an American dinner or evening dress from 1831 1835, offered for sale by Cora Ginsburg in 2017. The original is made from laurel green moir silk, with a striped waistband and large gold and amber buckle. The dress is six inches tall, stitched by hand on 8x10 inch