Fabric
Mid-weight crepe blend, lined through the top panel. Hidden side zip.
Daywear · Made to order
The Badayeon Skirt.
$215 to $305 · quoted in consultation
Badayeon, sea-lotus. A chima in a cool tonal base with soft pleats that read like water. The hem falls long, designed for indoor formal events. The drape holds the room rather than asks for it.
Sea-lotus, in cloth.
Occasion
An indoor wedding in a hotel ballroom. The hwangap dinner where the chima holds the table. The piece that walks across a room and registers in motion.
The story
The lotus has been a Korean visual register since the Three Kingdoms period, when Buddhist iconography moved through the peninsula and the flower entered ceremonial cloth. Badayeon names a sea version of the same form. The chima carries the water reference through its pleats, where the fabric breaks light the way moving water does at the edge of shore.
Mid-weight crepe blend, lined through the top panel for structure at the waist. The pleats are pressed soft so the chima reads as water rather than architecture. A hidden side zip keeps the panels uninterrupted. The hem falls long for indoor formal occasions. The cool tonal base holds the color through the photographs.
Worn to the indoor wedding where the ballroom carries low directional light and the chima has to register from the next table. A hwangap dinner where the elder sits at the head and the chima at the side holds the room without lifting its voice. The pleats catch the light the way the sea catches the moon.
Hand-finished in Seoul. Inspected and fitted in San Mateo.
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