Woman in an emerald cut-out wool blazer over a draped emerald satin dress, reading a book in a bookshop

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn · Winter

Emerald cut-out blazer over a draped satin dress

An emerald wool blazer with slash cut-outs at the shoulders and waist, worn over a draped emerald satin dress with a pleated side panel.

The blazer is emerald wool, long and single-breasted with one covered button, peak lapels and flap pockets, and it is cut open where tailoring usually is not: a slash across the top of each sleeve at the shoulder, and a second pair at the waist on either side of the button. Under it, a dress in emerald satin with a draped bodice and a skirt that wraps to one side, finished with a column of knife pleats that falls from the hip.

Tonal from lapel to hem, the blazer buttoned so the cut-outs are the only openings. It reads as office tailoring from the front and something else when an arm lifts. Autumn through spring, with a black pointed pump; a long coat over it only when the weather insists.

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the pieces

  • Emerald wool slash cut-out blazerblazer · wool · emerald
  • Emerald satin draped dress with pleated panelmidi dress · satin · emerald

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styling notes

  • Keep the blazer buttoned; the cut-outs are the opening
  • Black pointed pump, no platform
  • Hair down and straight over the lapels

palette

Emerald#10694B Forest green#163F2E Charcoal#2A3A33

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnWinterDinnerCocktailOfficePowerSharpSatinWoolBlazerMidi dressLibraryCut-outPleatedFitted

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