Cobalt taffeta corset top with pleated tapered trousers

The top is cobalt taffeta, boned like a corset through the body with a curved pointed hem that sits over the waistband, a high round neck, and short puff sleeves gathered at the shoulder so they stand out like bells. The trousers are black, high-waisted with double pleats, tapered to the ankle with a pressed crease, and a panel of black cloth draped from the right hip that hangs to the knee like a half apron. Black pointed heels.

It is a night-out look that stays dressed: covered to the collarbone, all the drama in the colour and the sleeve. The trousers take it anywhere the skirt version would not. Pointed heel, small hoops, no bag that cannot be held in one hand. Autumn and spring, any street with a neon sign to borrow light from.

Blue this loud does not need a second opinion.