Woman in a rust wool jacket and pencil skirt with black leather panels, holding a tool in a pottery workshop

Dark tailoring · Autumn · Winter

Rust wool jacket and pencil skirt with black leather panels

A rust wool jacket with gathered sleeves and black leather side panels, with the matching pencil skirt, in a pottery workshop.

A rust wool skirt suit cut close and finished with black: the jacket has a round collarless neck, a hidden front fastening and three-quarter sleeves gathered into thick folds at the elbow, with black panels set into the side seams and a black leather strip along each one. The wool is dense and matte, the kind that holds a seam. The pencil skirt matches, knee-length with a short front slit and a black leather insert angled across the hip.

Office tailoring that does not look like anyone else's at the meeting. Autumn and winter, no tights, a pointed black pump or a sharp ankle boot. The sleeves take the place of jewellery; the skirt takes the place of an argument.

Rust is the one colour I keep forgiving. It behaves like black and photographs like a sunset.

the pieces

  • Rust wool jacket with gathered sleevesjacket · wool · bronze
  • Rust wool pencil skirt with leather insertpencil skirt · wool · bronze

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styling notes

  • Pointed black pump or a sharp ankle boot
  • No tights, the slit is short enough
  • Small hoops only; the sleeves do the rest

palette

Bronze#B3461E Black#141414 Charcoal#2A2A2A

details

Dark tailoringAutumnWinterDinnerOfficePowerSharpLeatherWoolJacketPencil skirtIndustrialPuff sleeveHigh waistFitted

wearabilitycloser to street

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