I can’t sleep so now I need to research how many meters of fabric went into a Fortuny dress.

Fortuny was famous for his pleated Delphos’ gowns inspired by Ancient Greece. Even today, we still don’t know the exact methods he used to make all those pleats.

I love fashion that appears deceptively simple. The Delphos gown looks natural, effortless, easy. But there’s an art to making a complicated thing look so obvious.

Fortuny gowns are so extraordinary that you can literally ball them up (they’re actually *supposed* to be stored by twisting into a ball), and they won’t lose their pleating. Even a century later.

https://fortuny.com/follow-the-pleats/

“One panel would include 430-450 pleats, and there were four to five panels per gown.”

https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/dykes_amy_r_200312_ms.pdf

I think someone will have to math this for me as numbers are not my strength. The above source says the pleats are 1/8 to 1/16th of an inch wide, and the source here agrees with the previous in that there are about 450 pleats in a one-meter wide section:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anneke_Smelik/publication/287225115_Fashioning_the_Fold_Multiple_Becomings_in_Fashion/links/5b9a5276299bf14ad4d79c6e/Fashioning-the-Fold-Multiple-Becomings-in-Fashion.pdf

So....450 1/8th” pleats per meter panel with 5 panels...is that right?

Is there enough info for someone to math that out?