What Lingers at Dusk Afterglow Gown

Size	Bust (in)	Waist (in)
3XS	29	23
XXS	31	25
XS	33	27
S	35	29
M	37	31
L	39	33
XL	41	35
XXL	43.5	37.5
1X	46	40
2X	49	43
3X	52	46
4X	55	49

There is an ancient intimacy between beauty and death, a terrible tenderness in the knowledge that even the loveliest things are destined to perish. The What Lingers at Dusk Afterglow Gown is a spectral vision of this eternal romance, its diaphanous folds revealing a shadowy wilderness of bruised blossoms, poisonous emeralds and black beetles creeping amongst the dying petals. Like the darkened canvas of a Victorian memento mori, its colours seem to emerge and dissolve beneath the veil of twilight, the flowers suspended in that exquisite moment when their beauty has begun to surrender to decay. An apparition of botanical splendour, as though the last living garden has been gathered into a magnificent, ghostly silhouette, its fragile abundance preserved upon the very threshold of disappearance.

Romantic gown with cascading ruffled skirt
Bodice with underwired cups
Tightening corset at the back of bodice
Self-tie shoulder straps which can be adjusted
High leg slit with 2 sets of poppers to adjust
The leg slits up to the waist, and the poppers close the slit to the top of the thigh

And when the final light withdraws, the garden does not fall entirely silent. Beneath the darkened leaves, the beetles continue their solemn procession, the dying flowers release their last traces of perfume, and something beautiful seems to stir amongst the shadows. Neither wholly living nor entirely surrendered to the earth, it lingers in a state of exquisite uncertainty, a fleeting vision of all that nature has loved and must eventually reclaim. A gown like the last breath of a vanishing garden, where even the smallest remnants of life become part of something magnificent, mournful and impossibly beautiful.