Woman in an open green and gold brocade blazer and black wide-leg trousers seated at a street café with an espresso

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Green and gold brocade blazer with black wide-leg trousers

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Brocade before noon. The café can cope. A green and gold brocade blazer worn open over nothing, black wide-leg crepe trousers, cognac leather platform boots. Gold thread is my kind of gold. It cannot fall off. Coffee outside, small cup.

A green and gold brocade blazer worn as a top on its own, black wide-leg trousers and cognac platform boots, at a pavement café.

A single-breasted blazer in bottle-green brocade, woven through with a gold floral damask that catches the light every time the sleeve moves. Narrow notch lapels, a slim shoulder, a hip-length body that buttons once and is left mostly open. The sleeves are pushed to the forearm, which is the only way brocade looks like it was put on this morning and not borrowed from a museum.

It works as the top on its own; below it, black wide-leg trousers in a fluid crepe that drop straight to the floor, and chunky cognac leather platform boots. Worn at a street café table with an espresso, in spring or the first cold weeks of autumn, it is evening fabric doing a daytime job. Keep everything else plain and black so the jacket can be as loud as it likes.

Not a morning person. The blazer does the talking until the second coffee.