Woman in a white cotton puff-sleeve top with folded front and black wide-leg trousers outside a concrete house with agaves

Dark tailoring · Spring · Summer

White puff-sleeve wrap top with black wide-leg trousers

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White at noon. A risk I take so you don't have to. A white cotton wrap top with balloon sleeves and a folded front, tucked into black linen wide-leg trousers, flat pointed shoe. No jacket. The sleeves outrank one. Daytime, find shade.

A sculpted white cotton top with balloon sleeves and an asymmetric folded front, over black linen wide-leg trousers, in hard midday sun.

The top is crisp white cotton, folded and pleated across the front like a piece of paper, with an off-centre neckline, a nipped waist and two enormous balloon sleeves that gather tight at the elbow. The hem is cut on a diagonal so one side sits longer than the other. The trousers are black, high-waisted and wide, in a dry linen-wool blend with a pressed crease and a clean, unbroken line to the floor.

This is spring-into-summer workwear that happens to look like a party: a long day of meetings, a lunch outside, dinner after without a change. Tuck the top and keep the waistband visible so the proportion reads. A pointed flat or a low block heel, both black. No jacket; the sleeves refuse to go under one anyway.

Concrete house, agaves, midday sun with no mercy. The top stays white. Everything else has to try.