Woman in a sleeveless double-breasted black wool coat dress with long leather gloves and knee boots against a concrete wall
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Outerwear · Autumn · Winter

Sleeveless black wool coat dress with leather opera gloves

A sleeveless double-breasted black wool coat dress with six matte buttons, worn with long leather gloves and knee-high boots against concrete at noon.

A coat dress with the sleeves taken out of the argument. Black wool, double-breasted, six oversized matte black buttons in two columns, peak lapels and a slim flap pocket at each hip, cut close through the waist and ending above the knee. The arms belong to the gloves: long black leather opera gloves pushed up past the elbow, so the sleeves show up only where the tattoos stop. Black leather knee-high boots with a side zip finish it below.

It is winter outerwear that does not wait for a coat on top. Wear it closed, always; the buttons are the only ornament it has and they work hardest in hard light. Boots to the knee, gloves to the elbow, hair down the back. Dinner, an opening, a day that needs a wall of concrete and some shade. Autumn when it is bright, winter when it is not.

Six buttons. I counted. Nobody else needed to.

the pieces

  • Sleeveless double-breasted black wool coat dresscoat · wool · black
  • Long black leather opera glovesopera gloves · leather · black
  • Black leather knee-high bootsboots · leather · black

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styling notes

  • Keep it fully buttoned, the buttons are the point
  • Gloves pushed above the elbow
  • Boots to the knee, no tights in between
  • Hair straight down the back

palette

Black#141414 Charcoal#2E2E2E Gunmetal#4B4E52

details

OuterwearAutumnWinterDinnerEventEditorialPowerSharpLeatherWoolMini dressCoatBootsOpera glovesStudio (concrete)Fitted

wearabilitysomewhere in between

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