Rizal Piña Barong Archive Sample A-line silhouette

A-line silhouette

set here on coated cloth rather than formal silk

hand-set pearl and crystal are worked into the scrollwork — quiet dimension on a pale ground

• Made to order only

Rizal Piña Barong Archive Sample A-line silhouetteFormality that doesn't announce itself. The Rizal is cut from pia the rarest of the barong cloths, kept for the occasions that ask for it. The fiber is drawn from the pineapple leaf by hand, knotted into a thread fine enough to see through, then woven into a cloth that holds light rather than returns it. Lined throughout, so it reads either way over an undershirt or on its own. Hand dyed to a cool aquamarine, it carries the slight irregularity that