Woman in an oversized charcoal and black panelled blazer and wide pleated trousers with a hanging strap, in a gallery

Dark tailoring · Spring · Autumn · Winter

Oversized panelled blazer with strap-detail pleated trousers

An oversized blazer pieced from charcoal flannel, black wool and black satin, over wide pleated trousers with satin inserts and a hanging strap.

The blazer is oversized and pieced together on purpose: the wearer's left front and the lapel in charcoal grey flannel, the right front in black wool with a satin chest pocket, and the right sleeve in black satin that ends in a wide turned-back cuff. Two black buttons, a dropped shoulder, a long body, worn closed as the top. The trousers are black, high-waisted and very wide, with deep pleats that open onto inserts of charcoal satin, so the leg changes colour as it moves; a black strap hangs from the waistband on each side, one with a silver clip and a D-ring, finishing in a metal tip at the knee.

Office-to-dinner tailoring for the colder half of the year, or a spring day indoors. Hands clasped, sleeves pushed where they fall, a narrow black shoe. No bag: the straps already do the swinging.

Three greys and two blacks in one suit. Some people call it monochrome. I call it a good week.

the pieces

  • Oversized charcoal and black panelled blazer with satin sleeveblazer · wool · charcoal
  • Black pleated wide-leg trousers with satin inserts and hanging strapwide leg trousers · black

similar pieces

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styling notes

  • The blazer is the top; no shirt
  • Narrow black shoe; the trouser is wide enough
  • No bag, the straps already swing
  • Hair down over the flannel side

palette

Black#141414 Charcoal#3A3937 Silver#C0C0C4

details

Dark tailoringSpringAutumnWinterDinnerEventOfficePowerSharpSatinWoolBlazerWide-leg trousersGalleryPleatedHigh waistOversized

wearabilitycloser to street

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