{"title":"Bridal","description":"\u003cp\u003eSomething old, worn beautifully, and worn again. These have all been somewhere before, which strikes me as the whole point rather than a compromise. I take whatever time each piece needs before it's packed and sent from Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"quicksilver-1970s-silver-sequin-clutch","title":"Quicksilver · 1970s Silver Sequin Clutch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSilver round sequins · rectangular silver-tone frame · ball clasp · grey satin lining · no label · 1970s · approx. 22cm wide × 12cm tall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverlapping round silver sequins, so that the surface shifts and ripples as the bag moves: not a flat mirror but something alive in the light, constantly renegotiating. A silver-tone rectangular frame, a small ball clasp, a grey satin lining. The kind of clutch that changes the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo label, 1970s. The sequin evening bag arrived in full force with the disco era, but this one is from the side of that decade that understood restraint: the frame is architectural, the proportions deliberate, the sequins allowed to do all the talking without any additional decoration. Sequins as a technique are ancient, found in Egyptian burial cloths and medieval church embroideries, but the 1970s industrialised them, made them democratic, put them in the hands of women going out on a Tuesday. The bag looks like water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnsigned masterwork in the way that unsigned things often are: made well, kept well, arrived here with its beauty fully intact. Approximately 22cm wide, 12cm tall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44108985172102,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2875.jpg?v=1782257053"},{"product_id":"grenoble-white-1950s-cream-kid-leather-opera-gloves-size-6","title":"Grenoble White · 1950s Cream Kid Leather Opera Gloves, Size 6¼","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIvory kid leather · mousquetaire evening gloves · five-line point stitching · three mother-of-pearl buttons · made in France · 1950s · size 6¼ · length approx. 40cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvory kid leather, mousquetaire length, with three mother-of-pearl buttons at the wrist and five lines of point stitching drawn across the back of the hand in perfect parallel. Kid leather this fine has a suede-matte surface that holds the light differently from every angle, pale as unbleached linen, cool to the touch as still water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mousquetaire glove, long past the elbow, belongs to the grammar of Continental evening dress. French glovework of the 1950s was among the finest in the world: the tanning of kid, the fitting to a numbered last, the finishing by hand, these were trades passed down in family workshops in Millau and Grenoble and a handful of other towns where nothing about the work had changed much since the eighteenth century. Point de Paris stitching in this number and spacing is not a flourish but a signature, the way a maker says: here, this is who I am. The word ganterie covers all of it but translates only to \"glove-making,\" which is not quite enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade in France, 1950s. Size 6¼. Length approximately 40cm. A pair of gloves that understand formality as something one does with the whole arm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44108990349446,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_2942.jpg?v=1782266917"},{"product_id":"first-frost-2000s-handmade-feather-and-pearl-flower-clip","title":"Velum Dott · 2000s Handmade Feather and Pearl Flower Clip","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSatin and lace petals · feather spray · faux pearl stamens · dotted illusion netting · pin and clip fastening · handmade, 2000s · 20cm x 18cm · feathers intact, gentle edge fraying\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLayer after layer of white petals build out from the centre, satin giving way to a finer scalloped edge of lace, and behind all of it a spray of feathers stands up loose and pale, catching light the flowers themselves cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone built this by hand, petal by petal, gluing each ring slightly higher than the last so the centre reads full rather than flat. A scatter of faux pearls sits on fine wire among the feathers, the kind of detail added last, once the shape underneath had already been decided. She carries no label, the sort of small bridal or millinery workroom piece that was never meant to be traced back to a name, made sometime in the 2000s, when a flower like this was standard finishing for a hat, a hairstyle or a lapel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dotted illusion netting sits underneath the petals like a held breath, its polka dots throwing small shadows across the kraft paper she is photographed against. She fastens two ways: a pin on one side of the backing disc and a spring-loaded clip on the other, riveted in place so either can take the weight. The glue holding the layers together has yellowed slightly at the back over time, visible only if you turn her over, and does not show at all once she is pinned or clipped in place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44179841187974,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3737.jpg?v=1784773256"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/collections\/DSC_2942.jpg?v=1782794336","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/collections\/bridal.oembed","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}