Woman in a black wool blazer with oversized balloon sleeves and a cut-out waist, wide-leg trousers, on a balcony at dusk

Dark tailoring · Autumn · Winter

Black balloon-sleeve blazer with cut-out waist

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Black on black on black. Consistency is a virtue. A black wool blazer with gathered balloon sleeves, the waist pulled in tight and opened at both sides. Worn as a single layer. Black wide-leg trousers, pointed ankle boots. The sleeves take up two seats. I only pay for one. Dinner, then the night.

A black wool blazer with enormous gathered balloon sleeves, a waist pulled in tight and cut open at the sides, over black wide-leg trousers and pointed boots.

The blazer is black wool with a satin sheen at the shoulder, and the sleeves are the whole argument: gathered high into balloons that stand out from the arm before narrowing to a long, rumpled cuff at the wrist. The body is the opposite, nipped hard at the waist with a cut-out at each side where the jacket pulls in, and flap pockets sitting low on the hip. Deep lapels, one hidden closure, worn as a single layer. The trousers are black wool, high-waisted, wide and creased, breaking over black pointed ankle boots.

Wear it when the invitation says nothing about a dress. Autumn and winter evenings, launches, dinners that turn into a night, the balcony before all of it. The proportions do the work, so the rest stays plain: hair down, the small hoops, the watch. A coat over those sleeves will not close, and that is fine; carry it.

All black, all shoulders, and a waist the tailor took personally.

the pieces

Black wool balloon-sleeve blazer with cut-out cinched waistblazer · wool · black
Black wool high-waisted wide-leg trouserswide leg trousers · wool · black
Black leather pointed ankle bootsboots · leather · black