Woman in a black leather and silver chainmail blazer dress with a wide belt and combat boots on a city rooftop

Straps and belts · Spring · Autumn

Chainmail and leather blazer dress with a wide belt

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Chainmail, in case dinner gets medieval. A blazer dress in black leather and silver chainmail, padded at the shoulder, held shut by a wide leather belt pulled tight with the tail left long. Buckled combat boots, no tights. Nothing on my hands. The chainmail catches enough on its own. After dark.

A blazer dress in black leather and silver chainmail, padded at the shoulder and held shut by a wide leather belt, with buckled combat boots.

A blazer dress that is half armour. The lapels, sleeves, pocket flaps and centre panel are black leather; everything between them is silver chainmail, fine metal rings linked into a mesh that hangs with real weight. The shoulders are padded and square, the sleeves are pushed up, and the front is closed only by a wide leather belt with a covered buckle and a long tail.

It is worn as a dress, short, with no tights and black combat boots with buckled straps and a tread sole. The mesh ends in an uneven fringe of links below the leather hem. This is a night look for autumn or spring: a rooftop, a show, anywhere standing is expected and sitting is not.

It weighs what it looks like it weighs. I have never been better protected at a party.