Fabric
Full-body lace over an opaque liner. Hand-finished hem. Button closure at the placket.
Daywear · Made to order
The Nari Lace Blouse.
$195 to $285 · quoted in consultation
A jeogori-cut blouse rendered fully in lace, with a smooth liner beneath. The pattern runs flowers and tendrils across the body. A button closure at the placket, a hand-finished hem.
Lily, on the body.
Occasion
A wedding shower hosted in a friend's garden. A May brunch where the table is set under a trellis. The bridal lunch the week before the vows. The hours that ask for hanbok in a feminine register.
The story
Nari is the Korean word for lily, the flower that opens in late spring and stays through the early summer. The jeogori has always been a piece that can carry pattern at the chest, from court embroidery to modern print. Lace is a borrowed material, but the cut is the cut. The lace lays where embroidery once did.
This blouse is made of lace through the full body, the floral and the tendril running in repeat across the front and back. A smooth liner keeps the piece readable in any light. The Seoul workshop finishes the hem by hand. The button at the placket replaces the goreum for a closure that lays flat under the lace pattern.
Worn at a wedding shower in the garden behind a friend's house. The midmorning light catches the lace at the shoulder. The bride-to-be stands next to her best friend, who is wearing this piece. The photograph that lasts is the one of the two of them laughing, the lily pattern fully visible.
Hand-finished in Seoul. Inspected and fitted in San Mateo.
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