{"title":"M","description":"\u003cp\u003eOld labels lie, or rather they describe a world that measured bodies differently. I've put these at roughly a medium. The flat measurements on each listing are the thing to go by.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"five-hands-antique-edwardian-french-broderie-anglaise-corset-cover","title":"Five Hands · Antique Edwardian French Broderie Anglaise Corset Cover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCotton with broderie anglaise eyelet and lace trim · five mismatched buttons · French seams throughout · Edwardian, French 1900s-1910s · 38cm strap to hem, 51cm bust buttoned · hand-restored\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo two buttons on her agree with each other. One is mother-of-pearl, one a small disc of ceramic, two are covered in cloth, and the last is carved with a fluted, spoke-like pattern nobody in the archive has managed to name yet. Five hands, or five decades of mending, closing the same five holes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery interior seam is French seamed, the raw edge folded in and stitched twice so nothing inside her was ever left to fray, the kind of finishing a hand takes real time over. The lace panel at the bust is broderie anglaise, eyelet cut and buttonholed into hearts and drop shapes, edged in a scalloped trim that does not quite match the lace at the underarm, a small honest sign that this piece was made larger at some point from what began as a smaller garment. She belongs to a lot gathered in France in the 1980s, sitting untouched for decades before I began the slow work of bringing pieces like her back myself: soaking, whitening and restoring by hand, one at a time, my own ongoing project. The corset cover herself is Edwardian, cut and stitched decades before that. She arrived grey with age and has since been restored, by me, back to the white she was always meant to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe closes centre front with those five mismatched buttons, and gathers at the underbust into a fitted cuff rather than falling loose. The straps run 11cm from shoulder to garment, wide enough to sit flat rather than dig in, and the shoulders themselves remain sturdy with no strain to the seams. A rust-toned stain sits on the underbust cuff, pictured plainly rather than hidden, the one mark age left behind that restoration could not lift.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44180015382662,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3949.jpg?v=1784780657"},{"product_id":"black-rain-bella-j-1980s-suede-fringe-biker-jacket","title":"Black Rain · Bella J 1980s Suede Fringe Biker Jacket","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSupple black suede with allover fringe · batwing sleeves · adjustable buckle waist · Bella J, Australia · 1980s · 59cm long, 58cm bust at batwing · tagged a vintage M\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the softest, thickest suede in the archive, the kind that moves like fabric rather than hide, and every inch of movement sets the fringe swinging a half second behind the body, black rain that never quite catches up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBella J Leather Fashion made this in Australia sometime in the 1980s, a label that has left little trace beyond the garments themselves, the way small leather houses often do. What she did leave is real craft: batwing sleeves cut deep and dramatic, structured shoulder pads built in but never obvious once worn, and a waist that adjusts two ways at once, back fitting zippers doing the close work and a wide buckle belt doing the visible work on top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo pockets sit at the side waist, and up front there are two more, one decorative and one genuinely useful, easy to tell apart once you know which is which. The front zip runs 38cm down from a 15cm neck drop when fully closed, and the fringe falls 10.5cm at the sleeve edges, cut sharp and even. Every zipper still runs smooth, and the nap has been aired and brushed back to its original softness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44180327432326,"sku":null,"price":350.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3992.jpg?v=1784789752"}],"url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/collections\/size-m.oembed","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}