Woman in an olive leather peplum jacket, rust pleated satin maxi skirt and lug-sole boots on a cobbled street

Outerwear · Spring · Autumn · Winter

Olive leather peplum jacket with rust pleated maxi skirt

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Olive and rust. The desert got to me. An olive leather jacket, funnel collar turned up, asymmetric peplum, over a rust knife-pleated satin skirt to the ankle. Olive lug-sole chelsea boots. Not one black thing. I'll recover. Cold evening, walking fast.

An olive leather jacket with a funnel collar, gathered sleeves and an asymmetric peplum, over a rust knife-pleated satin skirt and olive lug-sole boots.

The jacket is olive nappa leather with a high funnel collar that closes off-centre, seamed through the bodice like a corset, with full raglan sleeves that gather into a wide cuff. Below the waist seam it opens into a peplum that is short at the front and falls in a long point at one side, so it reads as a jacket from the front and a half-cape from the hip. The skirt is rust satin, knife-pleated from a flat waistband to the ankle, and it moves with every step. Olive leather chelsea boots with a heavy lug sole keep the hem off the stones.

Two colours, no black: that is the whole idea. It is an autumn outfit for old streets, a long walk, coffee, dinner somewhere with stone walls, and it carries into winter with a fine roll neck under the collar. In spring, swap the boots for a flat sandal and the skirt does the work alone.

The skirt is sunset-coloured and the jacket is military. They get on fine.