Dark, close-to-the-throat drama with lace and falling beads.

A floral openwork lace band sits high on the throat, anchored at the centre by an oval faceted black stone set in a scalloped gold-tone frame. Below it, a teardrop bead swings from a short gold-tone chain, and a row of smaller faceted bead drops runs along the lace like dark rain caught on glass. The silhouette is Victorian in its bones and dark feminine in the way it wears. It suits a low neckline so the fringe has somewhere to fall, or a white collared shirt for something colder and more deliberate. Autumn nights, candlelit dinners, a Halloween party you refuse to call a costume. Style it with bare ears and dark lipstick and let the lace do the talking. As a gift it lands well for a goth girlfriend, a whimsigoth friend, or anyone who has been asking for a lace choker by name. One choker included.