Fabric
Cotton blend with a soft hand. Hidden snap closure under the goreum bow.
Kids · Made to order
The Sopung Girl's Hanbok Dress.
$155 to $245 · quoted in consultation
A more casual cut than the formal dol pieces, with a relaxed chima and easier closures. Built for an outdoor afternoon. The name reads as picnic. Cotton blend with a soft hand, hidden snap closure under the goreum bow.
Picnic, cut as hanbok.
Occasion
Family lunches outdoors at the cousin's house. Outdoor festival days where the food is held at long tables and the children run between them. The hanbok a child can run in without anyone hovering over the cloth.
The story
Sopung, picnic, is the Korean word for the outing schoolchildren take in spring, a day of food eaten outdoors and games played on the grass. The word carries a specific register of casualness, structured but easy. A hanbok built around sopung has to hold the form without the formality.
The Sopung relaxes the chima for movement. The cotton blend was chosen for breath. The closure runs as a hidden snap under the goreum bow, so the bow stays tied through running and the child does not have to be reminded to hold still. The hem is finished for play. The piece looks like the formal hanbok and acts like a play dress.
Worn by the child at the spring festival where the parents have agreed not to hover. The mother ties the goreum at the door. The grandmother watches from the bench as the child runs across the grass with the other cousins, the chima moving cleanly, no one calling the child back to fix the cloth. The hanbok holds the afternoon together.
Hand-finished in Seoul. Inspected and fitted in San Mateo.
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