Woman in an emerald wool suit with charcoal side panels and waist cut-outs in a concrete sculpture plaza at sunset

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn · Winter

Emerald colour-block suit with waist cut-outs

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Green. The whole suit. An emerald wool wrap blazer with charcoal side panels, over emerald wide-leg trousers with a charcoal stripe down the leg. Black pointed pumps. The waist is open at both sides. I call it ventilation. Evening opening, blazer on its own.

An emerald wool suit split with charcoal side panels: a wrap-front blazer open at the waist and wide-leg trousers with draped overlays and a contrast stripe.

The suit is emerald wool with the sides cut away and replaced in charcoal, so the colour runs down the front of the body and the grey runs down the seams. The blazer wraps and twists at the front, closes low with no visible button and opens at the waist on both sides, a cut-out between jacket and trousers. The trousers match the trick: high-waisted, wide, with a pressed crease, a draped overlay panel at each hip that falls like a half skirt and a charcoal stripe down the outside leg. Black pointed pumps just clear the hem.

A suit like this needs nothing added to it and nothing over it. Autumn through spring, for the kind of office where the work is being looked at, a gallery opening, a dinner that follows one. Hair down, one small hoop, the watch. Any bag should be black and small enough to forget.

Two colours, one suit, and the seams decide where each one stops.

the pieces

  • Emerald wool wrap-front blazer with charcoal side panels and waist cut-outsblazer · wool · emerald
  • Emerald wool wide-leg trousers with draped overlays and charcoal side stripewide leg trousers · wool · emerald
  • Black pointed pumpsheels · leather · black

similar pieces

  • Emerald wool wrap-front blazer with charcoal side panels and waist cut-outsfind similaramazon
  • Emerald wool wide-leg trousers with draped overlays and charcoal side stripefind similaramazon
  • Black pointed pumpsfind similaramazon

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styling notes

  • The blazer worn on its own; the cut-outs are the point
  • Trousers hemmed to the floor over a pointed pump
  • Keep the bag black and small

palette

Emerald#1F5A45 Charcoal#4A4643 Black#141414

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnWinterDinnerEventOfficePowerSharpLeatherWoolBlazerWide-leg trousersHeelsStudio (concrete)AsymmetricCut-outPleated

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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