Salvi LS Lace Blouse, Dark Brown

The Salvi LS Lace Blouse from My Essential Wardrobe in Dark Brown is a properly beautiful festive-occasion top — MEW at their premium best, and a considered step above the everyday-layer register. Lace and velvet, not mesh. Warm layer, quiet chicness, small measure of grown-up sexy on the top half. This is a proper piece.

The design story:

• Lace and velvet construction — the velvet stands slightly proud of the lace ground, giving the surface a textural depth that a plain mesh can't touch
• Long-sleeved — proper autumn-winter warmth
• Deep dark-brown palette — plays into the whole bitter-chocolate winter capsule on site (Y London Perfect Tank in Bitter Chocolate, Nobody's Child V-Neck Collared Jumper in Brown Striped, Sabriel Puffer in Dark Oak) and the warm-jewel family

Fabric-wise: 60% cotton, 30% polyester, 10% elastane. Cotton leads — a proper natural-fibre note that gives the piece its considered soft-hand-feel. The polyester blend engineers the slightly-proud velvet texture that makes this piece read premium, and the small elastane hit keeps it moving with you.

Sizing:

• Available in XS, S, M, L
• True to size
• Sue takes the XS
• Hil takes the M

How Hil wears hers — this is a proper festive-elegant combination:

• With the Nümph Harbor Trouser in Caviar — softly tailored velvety trousers in a deep near-black. Velvet meets lace-and-velvet is a proper considered evening-out move

How Sue wears hers — the full tone-on-tone chocolate combination:

• With her Toxik Tia Barrel Jeans in Chocolate Brown (XS)
• Finished with her Emu Australia Sharky Adventure Scuff in Chocolate Teddy — the teddy-fur boot pulling the whole chocolate-on-chocolate-on-chocolate look together

Head-to-toe dark-brown from top to shoe, layered textures, quiet luxury done properly.

My Essential Wardrobe is a proper named brand at WATC — considered, elevated, premium-tier construction and design. This Salvi is exactly the kind of festive piece MEW does best.