Woman in a cobalt satin ruffle blazer and matching wide-leg trousers with side slits standing in an old glasshouse

Dark tailoring · Spring · Summer

Cobalt satin ruffle blazer with split wide-leg trousers

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A suit, technically. Cobalt satin, a fitted blazer with a ruffle cascading off the peplum, wide-leg trousers split from the knee so they move before I do. Strappy black sandals, bag in the hand. Forty degrees in a glasshouse. Satin forgives nothing. Wear it to a party with a garden.

A cobalt satin suit: a fitted blazer with a cascading ruffle and peplum, and wide trousers slit from the knee, in a glasshouse.

The blazer is cobalt satin, fitted with notched lapels and a low V, a ruffle that starts at the lapel and cascades down one side to a short peplum at the hip. The trousers match: high-waisted, wide and straight to the floor, with a slit on the outside of each leg from the knee down so the satin opens as you walk. Black strappy sandals with a slim heel.

A satin suit is for the warm half of the year and for daylight that comes through glass. Worn as a two-piece with the blazer as the top, no shirt, and the trousers long enough to cover the heel. The ruffle means no scarf, no brooch and no bag on the shoulder; carry it in the hand. Garden parties, openings, late lunches that turn into dinner.

The plants had been there longer. I still got the light.

the pieces

  • Cobalt satin ruffle blazerblazer · satin · cobalt
  • Cobalt satin split wide-leg trouserswide leg trousers · satin · cobalt
  • Black strappy heeled sandalsheels · leather · black

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styling notes

  • Blazer as the top, no shirt
  • Trousers long enough to cover the heel
  • Strappy black sandal, nothing chunky
  • Bag in the hand, never on the shoulder

palette

Cobalt#1E3FB5 Navy#15287A Black#141414

details

Dark tailoringSpringSummerCocktailEventPowerSoftLeatherSatinBlazerWide-leg trousersHeelsGreenhouseRufflePeplumDeep VHigh slit

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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