Woman in a belted petrol trench coat with a large storm collar over olive satin wide-leg trousers on a cobbled street

Outerwear · Spring · Autumn

Belted petrol trench coat with olive satin wide-leg trousers

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Collar up. It is not a weather decision. A petrol cotton trench, collar standing, the coat open below a wide double-buckle belt, olive satin pleated wide-leg trousers underneath. Belted that high, nobody mistakes me for approachable. Flat boot. Cobblestones, early.

A petrol cotton trench with an oversized storm collar and a double-buckle belt, open over olive satin trousers. Morning light on cobblestones.

A trench coat in petrol blue cotton twill, cut long and worn open below a wide double-buckle belt in the same fabric. The collar is the point: an oversized storm collar that stands up around the jaw and folds over the lapels in three layers. The sleeves are full and gathered at the shoulder, tapering to a buttoned cuff, and the skirt of the coat splits at the front so the trousers show with every step.

Underneath, olive satin trousers with a pleated high waist and a wide leg that pools slightly at the hem. Petrol and olive is a colour pair that looks accidental and is not; the satin picks up the light, the twill absorbs it. A daytime coat for autumn and spring, for a city with old streets and a train to catch, worn with a flat boot or a low pointed heel and nothing in the hands.

The collar does the talking. Everything else keeps quiet.