Woman in a cobalt and black colour-block satin blazer and matching shorts walking down a hotel corridor

Dark tailoring · Spring · Summer

Cobalt colour-block satin blazer with matching shorts

A cobalt satin blazer cut with black side panels and balloon sleeves, worn as a suit with its own shorts.

The blazer is cobalt satin with a vertical black panel running from the shoulder to the hem on each side, peak lapels, a single black button and long balloon sleeves that gather into a narrow cuff. The front dips to a point below the button. The shorts repeat the colour-block: cobalt with a black band down the side, high-waisted, cut short and clean.

It is worn as a two-piece, the blazer closed on its one button with nothing layered over it, and cobalt block-heel sandals with an ankle strap keep the colour going to the floor. It is a hotel-corridor look for a warm evening, spring into summer, the kind of suit that walks into a dinner and does not need a bag. In colder months the shorts take opaque tights and the sandals turn into a pointed boot.

I do not do colour often. When I do, the whole corridor hears about it.

the pieces

  • Cobalt colour-block satin blazerblazer · satin · cobalt
  • Cobalt colour-block shortsshorts · satin · cobalt
  • Cobalt block-heel sandalsheels · leather · cobalt

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styling notes

  • Wear it as a suit; a top under the blazer breaks the line
  • Sandals in the same blue, nothing metallic
  • Opaque black tights in winter
  • Small hoops only

palette

Cobalt#1E4BB5 Black#141414 Navy#15306F

details

Dark tailoringSpringSummerNight outDinnerPowerSharpSatinBlazerHeelsShortsHotelPuff sleeveHigh waist

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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