Woman in a cobalt brocade blazer with pointed shoulders and matching pencil skirt seated in an armchair in a library

Dark tailoring · Autumn · Winter

Cobalt brocade blazer with pointed shoulders and a peplum

A cobalt brocade blazer with exaggerated pointed shoulders, a draped satin front and a leather peplum, worn with the matching brocade and leather pencil skirt.

A blazer in cobalt floral brocade with shoulders extended into hard points well past the arm, the kind of line that makes a doorway feel narrow. The front is a panel of plain cobalt satin, draped and gathered into the waist under one hidden fastening, with a small mesh insert at the side seam where the brocade stops. Below the waist the jacket flares into a short peplum in smooth cobalt leather. The skirt matches: brocade over the hips, a leather panel across the front, pencil-straight to the knee.

It is office tailoring for an office with a library, and dinner tailoring for anywhere with armchairs. Autumn and winter, the blazer worn as the only top layer, with a pointed black pump; a slim black boot if the library is cold. No coat fits over those shoulders, so the car waits outside.

I read in it. Mostly the room. The room reads back.

the pieces

  • Cobalt brocade blazer with satin drape and leather peplumblazer · brocade · cobalt
  • Cobalt brocade and leather pencil skirtpencil skirt · brocade · cobalt

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styling notes

  • Blazer as the only top layer
  • Pointed black pump, or a slim black boot in the cold
  • No coat; it will not clear the shoulders

palette

Cobalt#2B4CB0 Navy#1E2F6E Black#1A1A1A

details

Dark tailoringAutumnWinterDinnerOfficePowerSharpLeatherSatinMeshBrocadeBlazerPencil skirtLibraryPeplumMesh panelDeep VFitted

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