Woman in a cropped cobalt shantung jacket and matching draped wrap skirt in front of a canvas market awning
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Dark tailoring · Spring · Summer

Cobalt shantung jacket with a draped wrap skirt

A cropped cobalt shantung jacket with pleats folded across the front, over a matching wrap skirt that parts below the knee. Market-day tailoring.

A two-piece in cobalt silk shantung, the slubby weave catching hard light. The jacket is short and fitted, with square padded shoulders and notched lapels; the front is folded into overlapping horizontal pleats that run down to a point at the waist, so it closes like origami rather than with buttons. Sleeves pushed up and creased at the forearm. The skirt matches: high-waisted, wrapped and draped into a deep fold at the right hip, crossing at the front and parting below the knee when she walks.

Worn as a set, with nothing else blue. No tights, a pointed flat or a low heel, the watch and the bead bracelet and that is all. Spring and early summer, for a day that starts in a market and ends in a meeting.

Blue this loud needs a plain background. The city obliges, mostly.

the pieces

  • Pleated shantung jacketblazer · silk · cobalt
  • Draped shantung wrap skirtwrap skirt · silk · cobalt

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styling notes

  • Sleeves pushed to the forearm
  • Nothing else blue
  • Pointed flats if the day is long

palette

Cobalt#2449A8 Navy#18253D Black#141414

details

Dark tailoringSpringSummerDaytimeOfficePowerSharpSilkBlazerWrap skirtMarketAsymmetricPleatedHigh waistCropped

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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