Women’s Gothic Ruffled Lace Splice Underbust Corset Black

This piece is the delicate violence of a captured doll. The Gothic Ruffled Lace Splice Underbust Corset combines the punishing structure of an underbust cinch with the frail, excessive mourning of layered black lace and ruffles. The juxtaposition creates a sense of both entrapment and decorative excess, as if the wearer has been tightly bound in the funerary trimmings of her own exquisite casket. It is an ornate, shadowed weapon designed to refine and terrorize the figure.