Fabric
Imported lace over a polyblend liner. Hand-finished hem. Button placket at the front.
Daywear · Made to order
The Bamhaneul Lace Blouse.
$195 to $285 · quoted in consultation
Bamhaneul, night sky. A jeogori-cut blouse rendered in deep lace over an opaque liner. The lace pattern catches light the way stars register against a dark field, dense at the shoulder and quieter through the bodice. The hanbok bones hold.
Lace, after dark.
Occasion
A December dinner where the dress code reads dark. Christmas Eve service. An evening that wants the jeogori line without the daytime read. The blouse for the room with low light.
The story
The jeogori is the upper half of the hanbok, the short jacket tied at the chest with a goreum. Its line is older than any modern collar still in use. The form names what is essential, a shoulder, a goreum, a sleeve set short. Translating that line into evening cloth is a question of what the lace allows the silhouette to keep.
Imported lace laid over an opaque liner so the pattern reads and the body does not. The hem is hand-finished, the placket buttons at the front so the goreum line stays clean. The lace is dark enough to hold its color through a candlelit room and fine enough that the pattern does not flatten when the light drops. The bones of the jeogori show in the shoulder.
Worn to the dinner that runs late. A Christmas Eve service where the women in the pew read the goreum before the carol starts. An evening when a black dress is the obvious answer and you want a better one. The jeogori line in lace lands Korean without lifting its voice.
Hand-finished in Seoul. Inspected and fitted in San Mateo.
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