Woman in a black leather and lace corset, feather shrug and chiffon skirt on a Paris balcony at dusk

Leather and lace · Autumn · Winter

Leather-lace corset, feather shrug and chiffon skirt

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Feathers. Before anyone asks, yes. A black corset in leather and lace with a busk front, a feather shrug on the shoulders, and a layered chiffon skirt, high in front, low at the back. The shrug sheds. I leave evidence everywhere. Wear it on a balcony at dusk. No coat.

A black corset in leather and lace with a busk front, a feather shrug on the shoulders and a layered chiffon skirt, on a Paris balcony at dusk.

The corset is the structure: black leather cups and side panels over a lace front, boned, closed with a row of silver hooks down the busk and cinched again with a narrow leather belt at the waist. Over the shoulders sits a black feather shrug, short and dense, the kind that moves in wind. The skirt is black chiffon cut high in front and long behind, light enough to move in the last of the daylight and opaque where it gathers.

It is an evening outfit for autumn and winter, for an event or a long night that begins on a balcony and ends somewhere with a coat check. The feathers do the job of a jacket without hiding the corset; the belt keeps the whole thing from reading as costume. Hair straight and down, small hoops, the black watch on the left wrist as always. Heels that can manage a wrought-iron stair.

The tower is in the background because it was there. She did not dress for it.