Woman seated in a velvet armchair in a hotel lounge wearing a fitted burgundy peplum blazer, satin blouse and black trousers

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Dark tailoring · Autumn · Winter

Burgundy peplum blazer with satin blouse and black trousers

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Hotel lounge, lamp light, nothing to do. Perfect. A burgundy wool blazer, shawl collar wide, peplum short, over a burgundy satin blouse. Straight black wool trousers, low black pump. Tone on tone, so nobody thinks I tried. Sit down at six, leave when the lamps go off.

Hotel-lounge tailoring: a fitted burgundy blazer with a shawl collar and peplum hem over a burgundy satin blouse and straight black trousers.

The blazer is fitted burgundy crepe with a wide shawl collar that folds back over the shoulders, one hook at the waist and a short peplum cut in panels. Under it a burgundy satin blouse with a draped neckline, tone on tone so the two reds blur into one, and straight black trousers in a dry wool with a clean front and a long leg.

Autumn and winter, office to dinner without a change: the peplum reads as a jacket at a desk and as a waist at a table. A black pointed pump, small hoops, the watch. Nothing at the shoulder; the collar is the structure.

Sitting in a hotel lounge at four in the afternoon counts as an appointment if the jacket is right.