Satin and slip · Spring · Autumn

Emerald satin midi dress with black raw-edge panels

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The edges are raw. So am I before coffee. A boat-neck emerald satin midi with black wool panels left unfinished, a draped front that sets the waist, and a high side slit. Black block-heel ankle boots. No belt. The drape already made that decision. Concrete, late afternoon.

A boat-neck emerald satin midi with black wool panels left raw at the edges, a draped front and a high side slit, worn with black ankle boots in concrete light.

The dress is emerald satin with a high boat neck and wide, square kimono sleeves, cut through with panels of black wool that are stitched on and left unfinished at the edges, threads and all. The front drapes and gathers into a soft cowl at the waist, one side falls in a long black column to the ankle, and the other side has a high side slit. Black leather ankle boots with a clean block heel.

It is a dress for an opening, a long dinner, a shoot in an empty building. Autumn and spring, when the kimono sleeves are warm enough on their own. Wear it with nothing else: no belt, no jacket, no bag bigger than a hand. The boots keep it from reading as a gown. A heel-less flat would make it read as loungewear, which is a different problem.

Concrete room, one window, a strip of sun across the floor. She found it. She stood in it.