What Lingers at Dusk Bluestocking Midi Dress

Even the loveliest gardens harbour an appetite for decay. Amongst the darkened blossoms, the beetles have already begun their solemn work, creeping through a wilderness of bruised petals, poisonous greens and flowers whose beauty has outlived their innocence. The What Lingers at Dusk Bluestocking Midi Dress is a haunting study in gothic botanicals, its shadowy tapestry recalling the morbid splendour of a Victorian still life, where every exquisite bloom conceals the quiet inevitability of death. There is something almost devotional in its darkness, as though nature herself has arranged these flowers into a beautiful warning of all that must eventually perish.

• Layered cotton dress in midi length
  
• Corseted bodice with boning and underwired cups
• Ruffled multi-layer skirt with thigh high split
• Cinching corset closure allows for a customized fit
• Elasticated puffed sleeves
• Fully lined
  

Yet there is a peculiar tenderness in the things that flourish upon the edge of extinction. The last unfurling of a petal, the delicate movement of a beetle amongst the dying stems, the final traces of colour before the garden is swallowed by night. A little portrait of mortality dressed in the loveliest imaginable finery, where death is never far from beauty, and the most exquisite blossoms are those already beginning to fade.

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Outer 100% cotton. Lining 100% cotton.

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