LL

This shirt is made using an early 1900s French linen from the Provence region, embroidered with the initials "LL" marking the woman it originally belonged to.
Its weave is heavier and denser than the light, flowy damask typical of the region, suggesting a linen made for durability and everyday household use rather than pure decoration. Monogrammed linens like this were often part of a young woman's dowry, hand-stitched and collected in the years before marriage as a mark of readiness to run her own household. Owning a full set of initialed linens was a point of pride in early 20th-century France, representing both practical preparation and personal identity.

This piece carries that tradition forward, a textile once meant to signify a new chapter now given another one.