Made to measure, at the same price as the size chart.
Which is the part that makes a silk shirt worth owning.
Almost every silk blouse at this price is sold in small, medium and large, and if none of those is your body then that is your problem. It is the reason most people never buy one twice. A shirt that fits everywhere except the shoulders gets worn once.
Every shirt here is cut to order in our Hanoi atelier, so Made to measure is one of the options in the size list above and it costs exactly the same as S, M or L. Same silk, same hand-printed panel, three to five extra business days.
The 1925 Emancipation cut in navy blue, in 100% mulberry silk, with a Ly Dynasty dragon printed by hand.
100% Mulberry silk
4 Fit options
46in Max bust
We pay the import duty, not you.
Nothing owed on arrival, nothing added at checkout, and shipping is free at this price. Sent from Hanoi. Standard sizes land in 9 to 15 business days; made to measure adds 3 to 5 before dispatch.
Buying this for somebody else? Clothing is the hardest thing to give, so read the size block below before you order — and if you are not certain of her measurements, a silk square needs none at all. This arrives gift boxed either way, with your note written by hand and no price in the parcel.
Find your size
These are body measurements, not garment measurements. Choose the column your body falls into and we cut the shirt with the ease this style is designed for.
S / US 4-6 Bust 34-35 in · 86-89 cm. Waist 26-27 in · 66-69 cm.
M / US 8-10 Bust 36-38 in · 91-97 cm. Waist 28-30 in · 71-76 cm.
L / US 12-14 Bust 39-41 in · 99-104 cm. Waist 31-33 in · 79-84 cm.
Made to measure US 16-18 and beyond, up to a 46 in · 117 cm bust. Same price.
Between two sizes? Take the larger one. This shirt is designed to be worn relaxed, and silk does not stretch to forgive a tight shoulder the way jersey does.
How made to measure works
Select Made to measure in the size list, then reply to your order confirmation with your bust, waist, and preferred sleeve and body length. Our team confirms within one business day. Tailoring adds three to five business days before dispatch.
Same price, same silk, same hand-printed panel. There is no surcharge and no minimum, because the shirt is cut to order regardless — the only difference is whose numbers we cut it to.
What to wear it with
Open over a plain tank, with jeans The way it gets worn most. Buttons undone, sleeves pushed up, and the print does the entire job while everything under it stays quiet.
Buttoned, with tailored trousers The version for a room where you are expected to look considered. Navy is the ground that lets a printed shirt do that without reading as loud.
Half-tucked into a midi skirt Front hem tucked, back left out. It gives the waist a line without the shirt having to be fitted.
Under a blazer or a coat Only the collar and the cuffs show, which is enough. A printed silk cuff below a wool sleeve is the detail people notice and cannot place.
The colors that work under it: black, white, cream, denim, camel, gray. Navy carries all of them. What it does not want is a second print in the same outfit.
★★★★★
The craftsmanship is top notch and the design feels timeless. Already eyeing another one.
BROOKE V. · VERIFIED BUYER
The part no photograph gets across
This shirt is cut from hand-printed silk panels, which means the print does not repeat the way a factory yardage does. The pattern is placed, not poured. Where the panels meet at a seam, somebody decided which part of the drawing lands where.
That is the difference you feel rather than see in a photograph. Printed yardage is cut wherever the marker falls, so a dragon ends up bisected by a side seam and nobody notices until it is on a body. Here the placement is chosen before the scissors, which is slower and is the reason the panels cannot simply be reordered.
The second thing is temperature. Silk against skin sits at your own temperature within seconds and stays there, which is why this works in a warm room and under a coat both. Nothing woven from oil does that.
Three things it lets you stop doing
A specification is worth nothing until you can say what changes because of it.
01
Made to measure at no surcharge The usual reason a silk shirt sits unworn is a fit that is almost right. Shoulders too narrow, sleeves too short, a bust that pulls at the button. Cut to your numbers, none of those happen, and there is no premium for it.
You stop buying shirts that almost fit.
02
Print placed by hand, panel by panel Factory yardage is printed by the meter and cut wherever it lands. These panels are printed one screen and one pass per color, then placed before cutting, so the drawing sits where somebody put it rather than where the marker fell.
You stop owning a shirt with a dragon cut in half at the seam.
03
Navy carries a print the way no other ground does A printed shirt fails when it cannot be worn with anything. On a pale ground the print sits on top of the outfit and demands the rest go plain. Navy is dark enough that the drawing reads as texture at a distance and as a picture up close, which is why it goes with denim, camel, black and white without a decision being made.
You stop planning an outfit around a shirt.
Why $215
The silk is 100% mulberry, hand screen-printed one color at a time. The panels are placed before cutting rather than cut from a roll. The shirt is sewn to order in our own atelier in Hanoi rather than bought from a factory that also makes six other labels.
Made to measure is included rather than charged for, which is unusual at this price and is the reason we can say the fit will be right instead of hoping it is. We post straight to you and we pay the US import duty, so the number on this page is the number you pay.
How to care for a silk garment
We recommend dry cleaning. A shirt is a constructed garment: it has a collar, a facing, interfacing at the buttonstand and seams that hold a shape. Those parts respond differently to water than a flat square of silk does, and a professional clean keeps the collar sitting the way it was cut. Tell the cleaner it is silk and ask for the gentle process.
If you prefer to wash it yourself, hand wash only, in cold water, using shampoo or a gentle body wash rather than laundry detergent. Detergent enzymes are designed to break down protein, and silk is a protein fiber. Two minutes in the water is enough.
Never machine wash, and never wring or twist. Press the water out against the side of the basin, then roll the shirt in a towel and press again.
Dry flat or on a padded hanger, in shade. Never in direct sun, which fades a print faster than washing ever will.
Iron on the lowest silk setting while still faintly damp, on the reverse, or place a thin cloth over the silk. If it has dried fully, mist it rather than turning the iron up.
How often: silk sheds odor and dust better than cotton, so a shirt worn open over something else needs cleaning far less than you would think.
Which motif should I be looking at?
Folk Form prints several motifs and they are not interchangeable. This is the shortest honest map of them:
Dragon Dreams — this one. Four large dragons turning toward a bodhi leaf, drawn from the stonework of the imperial citadel in Hanoi. Ly Dynasty dragons curve like moving water rather than snarling: the reading is rain, rivers and a harvest that comes in. It is the motif for what somebody did.
Dragon of Grace The same animal drawn smaller and repeated in center symmetry, so it reads as a worked surface rather than as a picture. On a garment that means the print is even across the body instead of concentrated.
Phoenix Dance The empress bird, and the one motif in Vietnamese temple decoration that carries no religious weight. It simply signals that things are well.
Imperial Lotus The lotus alone, from the carved column bases that held up the palace roof. In Vietnamese the flower grows in mud and does not smell of it — the image for keeping your character in circumstances that do not deserve it.
Why a Vietnamese print rather than a European one
The honest answer is not that ours is better made. It is that they are telling a different story and ours is the one nobody else has.
European houses print motifs drawn from their own visual history: equestrian tack, heraldry, botanical plates, nautical rope. All of it real, all of it theirs, and all of it now on a thousand imitations because the look is easy to copy once you know what it is.
Our drawings come from Hoang Thanh Thang Long, the imperial citadel at the center of Hanoi, begun in 1010 and excavated seriously only in the last twenty-five years. The dragon on this shirt is redrawn by hand from the stonework there, in a studio about eight kilometers away.
Practically: the print will not turn up on somebody else's shirt, and when a stranger asks about it the answer is longer and more interesting than a brand name.
COMMISSIONED WORK
Amanoi, an Aman resort, commissioned a bespoke Folk Form collection. Every piece in it was drawn, printed and finished by the atelier that makes this shirt, by the same hands.
ELLE Vietnam profiled the studio's approach to translating cultural memory into silk. Harper's Bazaar Vietnam covered the motif research and how each pattern is built from historical sources.
Do not take our word for any of it. Search Folk Form Amanoi or Folk Form ELLE Vietnam, or put either phrase to ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity and ask whether it checks out. We would rather you looked than believed us.
Buying this as a gift?
Clothing is the hardest category to give, and the size is the whole problem. Two things make it manageable here.
The size chart is body measurements, not garment measurements If you know her US dress size, the column is right there. If you know she is between two, the larger one is correct for this cut.
Made to measure costs the same If you would rather she chose her own numbers, order any size and tell us at checkout that it is a gift — we will hold the cut until she confirms her measurements, and the price does not change.
When NOT to give this If you are guessing at her measurements and would rather not ask, do not guess. A silk square needs no size at all, suits any complexion, and arrives in the same box.
Returns are thirty days, unworn and unwashed, with the tags on — including on made-to-measure pieces if the fault is ours.
The dragon, and where it actually comes from
Hanoi's imperial citadel, Hoang Thanh Thang Long, was begun in 1010. The dragon carved into its stone is not the ferocious creature most people picture. Ly Dynasty dragons move in a long slow curve, the way a river does, head raised, a pearl at the mouth, a crest of flame running behind.
The reading is agricultural rather than martial. Rain. Water. A harvest that comes in. Bodhi leaves and lotus sit around it, and on a shirt this size you get the whole composition rather than a crop of it.
Our studio redraws the motif by hand from archive photographs of the excavated pieces, then splits the drawing into screens. One screen and one pass per color, panel by panel, in Hanoi. The drawing is a thousand years old; the colors are not, and that is deliberate. A motif only survives by being put on things people actually want to wear.
Specifications
| Material |
100% mulberry silk |
| Color |
Navy Blue |
| Motif |
Huong Van Long Mong · Dragon Dreams · Ly Dynasty |
| Cut |
Emancipation 1925, relaxed button-up |
| Sizes |
S · M · L · Made to measure to 46 in bust |
| Print |
Hand screen-printed panels, placed before cutting |
| Made in |
Hanoi, Vietnam · cut to order |
| Care |
Dry clean recommended · or hand wash cold, never machine |
| Returns |
30 days, unworn, tags on |
The 1925 shirt in navy silk.
Pick your size above — or pick Made to measure, which costs the same.
100% mulberry silk, hand-printed panels placed before cutting, sewn to order in Hanoi. Free US shipping, import duty paid, gift boxed.
Free US shipping No customs fees Made to measure included 30-day returns
