Woman in an oversized cobalt wool coat and cobalt trousers sitting on a laundromat floor against a row of dryers
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Outerwear · Autumn · Winter

Oversized cobalt wool coat with matching trousers

Cobalt from collar to hem: a long oversized wool coat, straight trousers in the same blue and a crushed velvet top.

The coat is a long cobalt wool, cut oversized with dropped shoulders, wide notched lapels and a tie belt left loose at the waist. It closes with dark horn buttons and falls well past the knee, so sitting on the floor it pools like a blanket. The trousers are a matching cobalt with a straight, pressed leg.

Under the coat sits a cobalt crushed velvet top, the one place the colour catches the light. One shade, three textures: felted wool, smooth twill, rippled velvet. It is an autumn and winter outfit for errands, a slow coffee or a wait that runs longer than planned. Keep the shoes low and the hands free.

The dryer took forty minutes. The coat looked better every one of them.

the pieces

  • Oversized cobalt wool coat with a tie beltcoat · wool · cobalt
  • Cobalt straight-leg trouserstrousers · wool · cobalt
  • Cobalt crushed velvet topwrap top · velvet · cobalt

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styling notes

  • One blue head to toe, textures do the work
  • Belt tied loose, never cinched
  • Sleeves pushed back to show the watch

palette

Cobalt#2B4CB0 Navy#1E3A8C Black#0B0B0B

details

OuterwearAutumnWinterDaytimeCoffeeMinimalSoftVelvetWoolCoatTrousersWrap topLaundromatBeltedOversized

wearabilitycloser to street

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