Capsule wardrobe for pr professionals

Navy blazer

The unstructured shoulder is the trick: cardigan comfort on the body, suit-jacket credibility in the room.

Navy chinos

Nine office days out of ten, these stand in for dress trousers — the slim cut is what keeps the line sharp enough to get away with it.

White Oxford shirt

No shirt earns its slot harder: under a sweater it layers, into chinos it tucks, over denim it hangs untucked — one garment, three registers.

Light blue Oxford shirt

A half-step more relaxed than white, more forgiving of a working day, and it takes navy and grey exactly the way the white one does.

Dark wash jeans

Cut slim rather than skinny, in a dark stonewash that passes at the office on Friday and at the bar an hour later.

Midi skirt

The A-line in a neutral is the warm-month trouser substitute — same polish, more air.

Penny loafers

In tan or burgundy, worn bare-ankled with chinos through summer — the loafer at its natural habitat.

Ankle boots

A block heel under a pointed or rounded toe: the boot that ignores the forecast.

Trench coat

Rain, wind, in-between weather — the trench answers all of it, in khaki or navy.

Leather tote bag

Tan or black. The work-and-weekend hybrid.

Silk camisole

Under a blazer, beneath a cardigan, or on its own at dinner — bone or black, three jobs, one piece.

Oversized blazer

Menswear proportions on loan — over shorts in July, over trousers the rest of the year.