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Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress — A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US
Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress — A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US
Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress — A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US
Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress — A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US

Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress

$48.00

A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US small.

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Description

Tweed in cream and beige with a faint chevron through it and a thread of something metallic that catches the light when you turn. It is a coat dress — collar, full button placket, patch pockets — so it wears like a jacket you do not have to put anything under.

The braided trim around the collar, the placket and the pockets is what dates it, in the good sense: it is a 1960s finish, done properly rather than printed on.

The fabric

A finely textured tweed with enough body to hold a shape and enough warmth to carry a cold church in March. The buttons are ornate and sit like jewellery down the front.

How it fits

Cut to a US small, with a defined waist and a skirt that flares gently from it. The hem sits at the knee. There is no stretch in tweed, so this is the one piece here where the size is the size.

Looking after it

Dry clean. Tweed holds its shape because of how it is woven and a machine wash takes that out of it permanently. Brush it down after wearing and air it rather than washing it at every outing.

Among petite dresses for wedding guest options it is the rare one that is warm enough for the church and smart enough for the lunch afterwards, and it is a chic dress to impress without a sequin on it — the korean fashion formal dress people buy for one occasion and then wear for years.

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Why we took this one

People buy this for one day in particular — a wedding in March, a christening, a lunch afterwards. It is warm enough for a cold church and smart enough that you will not need a jacket over it.

The hardest part of a spring wedding is the hour before it, standing outside a church in a dress built for a heated room. Enough cloth to be warm and enough tailoring to need no jacket solves both at once — and among petite dresses for wedding guest options, not needing a jacket is what makes the photographs work.

Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress — A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US

Three ways to wear it

  • Summer wedding — bare legs, a court shoe, nothing at the neck.
  • Winter — opaque tights, a boot, a plain long coat over the top.
  • Work — with flat loafers, buttoned, which is how it reads least like an occasion.
Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress — A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US

Before you order

Cut to a US small, with no stretch in tweed — this is the one piece here where the size is the size, so measure before you order. The hem sits at the knee. Among petite dresses for wedding guest searches it is the one you can sit in for three hours and stand up from without creases across the lap. Keep any coat over it plain; textured over textured fights.

Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress — A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US

The particulars

Sizes S (4–6)

Mid-Century Tweed Coat Dress — A cream tweed coat dress with braided trim, ornate buttons and patch pockets. Cut to a US

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