Woman in an emerald satin draped midi dress with leather trim and black square-toe ankle boots in a concrete courtyard

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Emerald satin draped dress with leather trim and boots

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Overdressed and underslept. As usual. An emerald satin midi that folds and drapes like paper, bound at the waist and hem in matching leather, a cut-out at one side. Black square-toe ankle boots. The boot keeps the dress on the ground. Nothing else about me is. Late dinner, leather jacket after.

An emerald satin midi that folds and drapes like paper, bound at the waist and hem in matching leather, with a cut-out at one side and black square-toe boots.

The dress is emerald duchesse satin, cut with a folded, collar-like neckline that stands away from the body on one side and a wrapped bodice that crosses to a single strap on the other. The skirt is a series of large origami folds that bell out and then gather back at the hem, and every edge is bound in emerald leather: the waist, the front seam, the hem band. A small cut-out opens at the waist. Black leather ankle boots with a square toe and a stacked heel sit under it.

It wants very little company. Sleeveless, hair straight, a boot rather than a sandal so the dress does not tip into red-carpet. Spring and summer evenings, early autumn at a push; a black leather jacket over the shoulders when the temperature drops. Events and cocktails, not dinner in a booth.

The dress makes its own shadows. The wall was just there.