Woman in a black satin peplum jacket with silver embroidery, a black high-low skirt and knee boots in a brick loft
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Velvet and embroidery · Autumn · Winter

Embroidered peplum jacket, high-low skirt and knee boots

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Baroque, on a weeknight. A black satin peplum jacket, silver embroidery curling over it, with a black handkerchief-hem skirt, short in front, long behind. Matte leather knee boots. The embroidery does the talking. Good. I had nothing planned. Wear it to the theatre. Plain top underneath.

A black satin peplum jacket with silver baroque embroidery, a black handkerchief-hem high-low skirt and black leather knee boots.

A black satin jacket with a collarless stand neck, a hook front and a layered peplum that flares over the hip, embroidered with silver-grey baroque motifs at the chest, waist and pockets. It closes over a plain black top and sits on a black handkerchief-hem skirt: short at the front, dropping to a point at each side, so the knee boots get the full frame. The boots are black leather, plain, to the knee.

This is evening dressing built like a riding habit. The embroidery is the only light in the outfit, so the rest stays matte and black, and the skirt moves where the jacket does not. Autumn and winter, for a dinner that turns into something later, in a brick loft with the afternoon coming through the arched windows. Hair down and straight, the black smartwatch and beaded bracelet, and no other ornament: the jacket has already spent the budget.

Baroque on the jacket, boots to the knee, nothing sweet about any of it.

the pieces

  • Black satin embroidered peplum jacketblazer · satin · black
  • Black handkerchief-hem high-low skirtmidi skirt · silk · black
  • Black leather knee-high bootsboots · leather · black

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styling notes

  • Plain black top under the jacket, nothing that competes with the embroidery
  • Skirt short at the front so the boots show
  • Matte leather boots, no hardware
  • Hair straight and down, small hoops only

palette

Black#111111 Silver#A9A39B Grey#6E6B67

details

Velvet and embroideryAutumnWinterDinnerCocktailEventDark glamRomanticLeatherSatinSilkBlazerBootsMidi skirtIndustrialAsymmetricPeplumEmbroidered

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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