Woman in a black leather blazer over a silver chainmail top with black wide-leg trousers on a concrete rooftop above a city
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Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn · Winter

Leather blazer over a silver chainmail top and trousers

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Armour. For lunch. A black leather blazer, peak lapels, mesh insets at the waist, buttoned over a silver chainmail top. Black wool wide-leg trousers and pointed pumps. The chainmail is cold for exactly one minute. I complain for ten. Wear it to an opening. Sleeves pushed up.

A black leather peak-lapel blazer with mesh waist insets, worn over a silver chainmail top and black wide-leg trousers, pointed pumps under the hem.

A black leather blazer with sharp peak lapels, a single button and a strong shoulder, cut with two small triangular insets at the waist that let the top underneath show through. That top is a silver chainmail mesh, fine as fabric and light as a knit. Black wool wide-leg trousers with a pressed crease drop straight to a pair of black pointed pumps.

The leather makes it an autumn look; the chainmail makes it a night one. Keep the blazer buttoned so the mesh appears in three places only: the V of the lapels and the two waist windows. Cocktails on a rooftop, a launch, the kind of dinner that turns into a club without anyone deciding. Small hoops, the black smartwatch and the beaded bracelet, hair straight and centre-parted. Sleeves pushed up to show the ink.

Armour under a suit. Historically accurate, if you squint.

the pieces

  • Black leather peak-lapel blazer with mesh insetsblazer · leather · black
  • Silver chainmail mesh toptank top · metallic · silver
  • Black wool wide-leg trouserswide leg trousers · wool · black
  • Black pointed pumpsheels · leather · black

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styling notes

  • Keep the blazer buttoned; the mesh shows in three windows only
  • Chainmail on its own; no extra layer
  • Trousers long, a pointed toe just showing
  • Push the leather sleeves up

palette

Black#121316 Silver#B9B6B2 Gunmetal#4B4E52

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnWinterNight outCocktailEventDark glamSharpLeatherWoolMetallicMeshBlazerWide-leg trousersTank topHeelsRooftopCut-outMesh panelFitted

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