Worth beaded butterfly fancy dress gown, circa 1912 | Trained ivory silk charmeuse beneath a heavily decorated chiffon overlay, the bodice front and back having a pair of butterfly wings in gold, white and blue beads, back of dress covered in blue chiffon over tulle with large gold sequined stripes, gold lamé loop to raise the train. Matching headpiece of wings in matching decoration on chiffon. Former property of Margaret Draper, Princess Boncompagni. Charles A. Whitaker Auctions
Evening dress, Mme. Hayward, London, ca. 1909-10. Silk, metal, cotton. This skirt is part of a dress that is included in Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion: Englishwomen's dresses and their construction ca. 1860-1940." She describes it as "an evening dress in black silk net covered with tiny 1/8" silver sequins over an ivory satin underskirt." Museum of London
