Straps and belts · Autumn · Winter

Burgundy pleated satin gown with black leather bodice straps

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A gown, with supervision. Burgundy satin, sleeveless, a keyhole at the front and a knife-pleated skirt to the floor. Over the bodice, black leather straps with a high-waist band. The satin is polite. The leather is not. Wear it to a gala, black pointed heels.

A sleeveless burgundy satin gown with a knife-pleated skirt and black leather bodice straps that sharpen the whole line.

The gown is burgundy satin, sleeveless with a high round neck, a keyhole cut-out at the front and a fitted bodice that sits into a wide satin waistband. From the waist down it is all knife pleats, floor length, catching the light in vertical stripes every time she moves. On top of it, black leather bodice straps: a band at the neckline, two curved straps across the front, a cross at the centre and a wide leather band at the high waist, closed with a single gold stud.

The straps are what keep it from being a bridesmaid dress. Worn to a dinner that ends in a bar, a gallery opening, an autumn event where everyone else chose black. The pleats want a plain pointed heel and nothing at the neck beyond the leather; the straps are doing that job.

The pleats swish. The leather does not. That is the balance.

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Burgundy satin gown with knife-pleated skirt and keyhole cut-outgown · satin · burgundy
Black leather bodice straps with high-waist bandstrap belt · leather · black