Apple Green Co-ord Shirt and Trouser Set

Apple green, head to toe, because the soft life is allowed to be loud sometimes. A client who had just sold her business asked for a piece she could wear to a long Saturday in Victoria Island, brunch to bookshop to dinner, without changing. She wanted to feel twenty four again and look thirty five, which is the dressing problem of a woman who has just closed a chapter and is not quite ready to open the next one.

The shirt is boxy and crisp, cropped at the natural waist with a small chest pocket and a collar wide enough to read on a video call. The wide leg trouser carries a sheer panel detail at the knee, set into the side seam, which catches sun when she walks and stays invisible when she sits. Tonal stitching, hidden side pocket on the trouser, deep hem.

She told me the first time she wore it, a stranger in a coffee shop on Akin Adesola asked who made it. So now you know. She has worn it five Saturdays in a row. Her husband has stopped asking what she is doing for the day.