The overlap skirt as a construction — a front panel that wraps to one side and fastens — carries its own history of dress across the collection's reference material. The draped wrap seen on the mannequin in the archive photograph, the constructed layered silhouette of bodices over skirts: the overlap is a way of acknowledging that the body is not static, that the garment must allow movement without losing its line.

In black wool bouclé, the skirt provides the textured counterpart to the evening pieces and the architectural weight of the coats. The embellishment at the hem — small flower motifs in rust and blush placed along the lower edge — borrows the border logic from the corset-detail dress: marks concentrated where the garment ends, the field above them plain. The 1950s bouclé suit in the reference material was a single cloth making a single argument; this skirt adds the embellishment as its only divergence from that principle.

Mid waist. Straight line through the body. Front panel wraps cleanly to one side. Fully lined in silk.

Limited to 29 editions.