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Maeve Everything Top
Small
$100.00 USD
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Maeve Everything Top
$100.00 USD
The first piece that launched this little project: The Everything Top. Designed to fit into your wardrobe as an ever so slightly elevated alternative to a classic white tee, The Everything Top is a powerhouse piece. Hearty enough to withstand abuse, dainty enough to look good going out - it does everything.
Product Details
A basic boxy tee made with organic linen. The overall look is both utilitarian and romantic, with a lace sleeve inspired by traditional Irish crochet.
Care & Maintenance
This piece is machine washable (up to 40° C / 100 F) on a gentle cycle. I recommend either drying on low. Or, for absolute best results long term, hang dry. But truly - your piece is capable of going into the dryer like any other tee shirt if need be. I strongly suggest you embrace linen’s natural wrinkles! It’s what a sultry peasant would do. But if you do decide to iron, I recommend medium-high heat as a maximum. As a rule, linen can develop a shine when a too-hot iron is pressed on the surface, so do refrain from cranking the heat to its highest setting.
Size & Fit
See our sizing guide here.
Pricing Model
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LACE HISTORY
Lace sleeves inspired by traditional inIrish crochet.
Irish crochet emerged in Ireland in the 1840s, at the height of the Great Famine. Women needed a commodity they could make with their hands and sell to survive.
Eventually, simple themes became motifs of extraordinary intricacy: roses, shamrocks, leaves, spirals, each crocheted separately and joined with filigree mesh into pieces so beautiful that the fashion houses of Paris adopted them immediately, calling them Point d'Irlande and sewing them onto the gowns of the wealthiest women in Europe.
To this day, Irish crochet is the only great lace tradition in the world born not from royal patronage or aristocratic leisure, but from the desperation of the peasantry.
Whats in A name?
An ancient Irish name of a feisty lass.
Maeve — Medb in Old Irish — is among the oldest names in all of European literature, preserved in the Book of the Dun Cow, Ireland's earliest surviving manuscript, and carried by the warrior queen of Connacht whose stories predate Christianity on the island entirely.
Maeve, in Irish tradition, wasn’t a saint or one to surrender. She was the land itself made female, a goddess who decided which men were fit to be kings. So while the sultry Irish peasantry who carried this name in times of yore may not have been queens themselves, they certainly knew what made a man king.
And - for what it's worth - it's also the name of my sister's cat. Who is also extremely feisty.
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