Olive herringbone, worn and considered.

“I wore this suit to Australian Fashion Week and I almost forgot I had it on. That is the test of a great cloth.”

Pouring rain outside. A warm room, full of voices. A long evening of conversations ahead. The kind of night that asks something of you. I pulled this suit on, walked out into the wet, and stopped thinking about it within minutes.

The Target Elite olive green herringbone from Holland & Sherry is a pure wool cloth that wears like a second skin. Sexy. Soft. Buttery against the body. Almost weightless once it is on you.

You stop registering the suit. You start feeling more like yourself inside it.

The cloth in this note is 100% Super 120s wool, at 260 grams. To my hand, it feels smooth, refined and soft to the touch without losing its tailoring. Heavy enough to hold a beautifully tailored silhouette. Light enough to forget you are wearing it.

This is wool doing what I love it for: comfort and movement through a changing day. For me, this is a transeasonal cloth: autumn through spring in Sydney, the long stretch of the British and European year. Warm rooms, cool air, a long night ahead.

The colour does the rest of the work. Dark olive. Green in some lights, near-black in others, with a softness underneath that keeps it elegant rather than severe.

I love it alongside warm, deep colouring: rich brunette, bronzed and golden tones. If you already live in chocolate, cognac and espresso, this is a colour I would want you to try.

The herringbone itself is fine in scale. A quiet diagonal rhythm that introduces movement through the cloth without announcing itself. To my eye, a long, uninterrupted trouser line lets that rhythm do its work. The shape of the jacket and shoulder can change how the whole suit reads; those are choices to explore on the woman wearing it.

I see this one at its best as a full suit. Trouser and jacket in matching tone, the herringbone reading as depth rather than pattern. Equally compelling as a statement jacket worn over ivory silk or fine cashmere.

Styled with cream, camel, chocolate or oxblood: endlessly wearable. Worn with black, sharpened.

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Best vibes,
Erin x

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