The Long Meeting

A fine turtleneck is the most forgiving thing you can wear to a day that runs long. It has no collar to wilt, no buttons to gape and nothing to iron.

Pleats in wool hold their line through six hours of sitting. In anything synthetic they do not, and it shows by lunch.

Why it works

• Black and charcoal is tonal, so the camel coat reads as the whole colour story.
• The skirt hem and the boot shaft leave a short gap — that gap is the proportion.
• No hardware, no print, one pair of earrings.

Swap it

Black tailored trousers instead of the skirt on a day that involves stairs.