Woman in a rust brown leather one-shoulder midi dress with pleated hem and bronze strappy sandals against concrete walls

Leather and lace · Spring · Autumn

Rust leather one-shoulder midi dress with peplum

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Leather, one shoulder, and a colour that isn't black. Mark the date. A rust leather midi dress, fitted bodice, short peplum at the waist, pleated fishtail hem opening over the leg. Bronze strappy sandals, thin, tonal. Forty degrees in this and I'd be a handbag. Event, after dark.

A one-shoulder leather midi in a rust-cognac tone: fitted bodice, short peplum at the waist and a pleated fishtail hem that opens over the leg.

A midi dress in supple rust-coloured leather, cut on one shoulder with a single angled strap and a fitted, seamed bodice. A short peplum flares at the waist, and the column skirt drops close over the hips before breaking into knife pleats that fan out at the hem, higher on one side than the other. A high side slit runs up the left side, so the pleats swing open with every step. The leather has a soft sheen rather than a hard shine and reads warmer in direct sun.

This is a daytime event dress for spring or a mild autumn: garden weddings, a long lunch, cocktails that start at five. Thin bronze strappy sandals with a single ankle strap keep the look light and the colour story tonal; small hoops, smartwatch, bead bracelet and nothing else, because leather in this colour is already the statement. The tattoos on the arm and leg are the only pattern.

A leather dress in full sun on concrete, in a colour that matches the terracotta. Somebody was going to do it eventually.