What Ripens in Shadows Vignette Dress

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 something faintly obscene in the abundance of a garden that has been left to ripen beyond its season. Great clusters of golden fruit swell amongst darkened leaves, their sweetness turning feverish, while strange, flame-coloured blossoms flourish in the damp and gathering shadows. The What Ripens in Shadows Vignette Dress is a deliriously beautiful vision of nature at its most decadent, its midnight-blue tapestry overflowing with luminous yellows, bruised greens and flashes of burnt orange, as though some magnificent still life has been allowed to ripen slowly into corruption. A little portrait of botanical excess, where the pleasures of the harvest have become something altogether more intoxicating and faintly sinister.

Cotton midi dress with ambient neckine
Wide demi skirt
Sweet puffed sleeves with elasticated shoulder
Corseted back for size adjustment
Fully lined

For there is a moment when sweetness becomes almost unbearable, when fruit grows heavy upon the branch and the air is thick with the perfume of things beginning to spoil. It is the most beautiful and dangerous hour of abundance, when the garden offers up its final treasures with an extravagance that borders upon madness. A delicious little indulgence in nature's darker appetites, where everything is ripe for the taking, and nothing beautiful remains innocent for very long.