Woman in a long rust leather trench coat with a cropped overlay and matching leather shorts on a cobbled street at night

Outerwear · Spring · Autumn

Rust leather trench coat with matching leather shorts

A floor-length rust leather trench with a cropped double-breasted overlay, worn open over high-waisted leather shorts in the same hide.

The trench is cut long, to the ankle, in a rust nappa leather with a soft hand that creases at the elbow. The top half doubles up: a cropped, double-breasted overlay with wide notched lapels and a stand-up collar sits over the coat proper, with epaulettes at the shoulder and buckled tabs at the cuff. Underneath, high-waisted leather shorts in the same rust, pressed flat with a clean front crease.

Worn open and unbelted, the overlay doing the work of a jacket and the long skirt of the coat moving behind. It is a night look for an old town with lamps and cobbles, from a late dinner to whatever comes after. Spring and autumn, with an ankle boot or a sharp black pump when it gets colder.

Leather on leather on leather, in the one colour I agreed to this year.

the pieces

  • Rust leather trench coat with cropped overlaycoat · leather · rust
  • Rust high-waisted leather shortsshorts · leather · rust

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styling notes

  • Wear the trench open; the overlay is the jacket
  • Keep the lapels open and the overlay as the only layer
  • Ankle boot or black pump; keep the leather the only shine

palette

Bronze#9E4A2B Camel#C8703F Chocolate#6E2E1C

details

OuterwearSpringAutumnNight outDinnerTravelRockPowerLeatherCoatShortsStreetHigh waistOversized

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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