Woman in a cobalt pleated sleeveless top and textured cobalt bubble skirt standing in a sunny street market

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Cobalt pleated sleeveless top with a cloqué bubble skirt

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One colour, head to toe. Decisions are for other people. A cobalt sleeveless top, pleats running diagonal to a pointed hem, over a cobalt cloqué bubble skirt. Flat sandal, no bag. The market had fruit in this colour. I checked. Saturday morning, hand on the skirt.

Head-to-toe cobalt at a street market: a sleeveless top with diagonal pleats and a pointed hem over a textured bubble skirt.

Two blues that almost match, which is the point. The top is a sleeveless, structured piece in crisp cobalt cotton with diagonal pleats running from the shoulder to a pointed hem that drops over the waistband. The skirt is a cloqué bubble in a deeper cobalt, gathered at a high waist and hemmed under at the knee so the texture catches the midday sun.

This is a summer and late-spring look for daytime: a market, an espresso at the counter, lunch that goes long. No tights, a flat sandal or a low pointed pump, small hoops. The two textures do the work; the colour just needs to be allowed.

Colour is news for me. Tomorrow I will be back in black and nobody will mention it.