Woman in a charcoal pleated wool blazer with buckle straps and matching mini skirt at a stone balustrade above an old city

Dark tailoring · Autumn · Winter

Charcoal pleated blazer and mini skirt with buckle straps

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A suit, if a suit stopped short. A charcoal wool flannel blazer with pleated panels and leather buckle straps, the matching pleated mini, black lug-sole chelsea boots. No tights, heavy boots. In deep winter, opaque tights, same attitude. Office, then after.

A charcoal wool blazer with pleated panels, leather trim and buckled side straps, over a matching asymmetric pleated mini skirt and lug-sole chelsea boots.

The blazer is a charcoal wool flannel with padded shoulders and a peaked lapel, but the body is cut into vertical pleated panels that fall from the collar to the hem, so it moves more like a kilt than a jacket. Black leather trims the chest pocket, a flap pocket at the hip and the two buckled straps that cinch the waist; the sleeves have slits at the elbow that show the arm tattoos underneath. The skirt is the same flannel, pleated and cut on a diagonal so one side sits at mid-thigh and the other drops lower, closed with a single leather strap and a small silver buckle.

It is a matching set, and it is best kept that way. No tights and heavy black lug-sole chelsea boots stop it from looking like a suit; tights in deep winter, always black and always opaque. Autumn and winter daytime, an office that tolerates hardware, or an early dinner in an old town where the light hits the stone at six. Hair straight and centre-parted, the black smartwatch and the bead bracelet under the cuffs.

Pleats, buckles and a skirt that cannot decide on a length. Neither can the city below.

the pieces

  • Charcoal wool flannel pleated blazer with leather buckle strapsblazer · wool · charcoal
  • Charcoal wool flannel asymmetric pleated mini skirtmini skirt · wool · charcoal
  • Black leather lug-sole chelsea bootsboots · leather · black

similar pieces

  • Charcoal wool flannel pleated blazer with leather buckle strapsfind similaramazon
  • Charcoal wool flannel asymmetric pleated mini skirtfind similaramazon
  • Black leather lug-sole chelsea bootsfind similaramazon

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styling notes

  • Keep it as a set; the pleats match for a reason
  • No tights with heavy boots, opaque black ones in deep winter
  • Buckles at the waist, nothing else metal

palette

Charcoal#3A3937 Black#1F1E19 Silver#C0C0C4

details

Dark tailoringAutumnWinterDinnerDaytimeOfficeRockSharpLeatherWoolBlazerMini skirtBootsRooftopAsymmetricCut-outPleatedBeltedBuckle

wearabilitycloser to street

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