Forest-green wool blazer dress with balloon sleeves

A blazer dress in forest-green wool with a fine diagonal weave, cut close through the waist with seams that follow the body, notched lapels, a concealed front fastening and flap pockets at the hip. The sleeves are the point: balloon-shaped from the shoulder, gathered into a deep cuff and pushed up to the elbow. The hem stops well above the knee.

Worn on its own, no tights, with the sleeves pushed up so the ink shows. Autumn and the first cold weeks of winter, for dinner or the drinks before it, on a street old enough to have gas lamps. Keep the shoes simple: a black pointed pump or a slim ankle boot, nothing that fights the sleeve.

Green is a colour. I have been told this. I am still deciding.