… is the glass dress. Thanks to Beth for the link!
This is called "Evening Dress with Shawl", and is by the artist Karen LaMonte, and is at the Corning Museum of Glass (click image above to virtually visit) which has this to say about her:
Her subject is the dress, which is always life-size, whether it is for an infant, a young girl, or a woman. She explores a variety of styles of clothing in her work, from stiff and frilly Victorian dresses to idealized classical drapery. Her fashion choices reflect changing notions of beauty, how women view themselves, and how they have been viewed by others.
More images of LaMonte's work are here.
The conceit of making transparent glass sculptures of garments that are supposed to be opaque really appeals to me … the dresses are gorgeous and the molding process she uses, combined with the glass, serves to make the absent bodies that wore them somehow more present (if that makes any sense).
A Dress A Day 
This art seems to go so well with your drabbles– I love how the impression of the body from the inside of many of the glass gowns is visible– it’s like taking all the emotions and personalities that are impressed upon the dresses from your drabbles, and making the person who left those traces visible. What a great link!
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My guess (and this is just a haphazard guess) is that these dresses aren’t wearable.
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How interesting – thanks for introducing us to it.
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Merry Christmas, Erin. Thanks for the smiles this site has brought me.
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Such a brillo medium in which to render fabric; clearly no other method would do.(Did I make ANOTHER appalling pun?)
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I saw an exhibit of her work at the Tacoma Museum of Glass – amazing!
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these are quite something. I love that several of them have normal sized figures ‘in’ them and not all super model size tiny
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those are gorgeous!in vaguely related news, I bought a dress — evidently you are all rubbing off on me. 🙂
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omg! i totally saw that glass dress thinggy when I was traveling with my family =] yay!
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