Fashion creates conditions to transform normative images of human bodies, and through clothes, a subject’s exteriority can become reflective of an interiority, redefining the relationship between the fabric and the corporeal body, and what it means to “be”. While fashion is reflective of developing ideals of beauty, modes of being, and ornamentation, it also functions as simulacra for forms of body horror, manifesting through various articulations of forced suppression or outward expression. The limits of an ideal “body” fashioned through a uniform reveal a permissible body or a required propriety, where a uniform necessitates conformity while simultaneously defining an arbitrary “other”. a Grotesque pearl takes my old Catholic school boys’ uniform and transforms it into a corset and underwear, transforming the body through the architecture of fashion using the language of the Baroque “grotesque”: foreign, distended, and doused in artifice.