historicalfashion:

An intrinsic step in the couturier’s process, muslins, or toiles, are used to work out the outline and construction of the complicated gowns that designers like Charles James have imagined up. This one is a beginning step of his famous “Four Leaf Clover” dress from 1953.

The finished gown:

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