There were seductive moments — big dusky pink coats threatened to slip off the shoulders and were paired with long, pink slip dresses — but the
silhouette was
always extremely covered up: there were
pencil skirts and kilts worn over trousers, many swishy, full - length skirts, as well as those gargantuan coats, which are, not coincidentally, very complementary to the long lines of the modest
silhouette that remains dominant on the catwalks.
My favorite skirt was a black
pencil skirt with a deep back slit with a white - olive - hot pink print of geometric forms in
silhouette — the pattern
always reminded me of a retro 50s countertop.