Half Light · Capture 2000s Tweed and Tulle Godet Skirt
Poly/viscose tweed alternating with nylon tulle godets · inky blue-black · invisible side zip · fully lined · Capture · 2000s-2010s · 77cm long, 65cm hip flat · tagged AU 18
Six panels of tweed alternate with six of tulle, solid then sheer then solid again, so the skirt reads as one fabric from a distance and admits the trick only once it starts to move.
The tweed itself is a fine poly-viscose weave, inky enough to read black in most light and only give up its blue at the edges of the day, set edge to edge against panels of nylon tulle so sheer they hold almost no colour of their own. Whoever engineered this skirt built the flare from real gore construction, tulle set directly into the seams as proper godets rather than added afterward as trim, which is the part worth admiring regardless of what the label says. Made sometime in the 2000s or 2010s, when tailoring this considered still turned up in ordinary work wardrobes rather than only on runways.
She closes at the side with an invisible zip, no visible teeth or tape breaking the tweed's surface, and sits fully lined so the tulle panels never touch skin directly. Each godet widens gradually from waist to hem, which is where all the movement lives, the tulle catching air the tweed never could on its own.
Material
Poly/viscose tweed, nylon tulle, lining
Care
Cold hand wash with similar colours. Cool iron only.
More on looking after vintage pieces in our care guide.
Size
Measured flat: Measured flat, she runs 77cm long with a 49cm waist and a 65cm hip, flaring out to a 95cm hem thanks to the godet construction. Tagged an AU 18. International size L.
Our size guide explains how vintage sizing is read here.
Condition
Excellent. No flaws to the tweed or the tulle panels, all godets sit even and full, and the invisible zip runs smoothly. Lining fully intact throughout.
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Before it reaches you
Someone loved this before you did, and I try to honour that properly. Each piece is hand washed, or cleaned in the way that the fabric permits, then steamed until it softens and straightens and feels newly attended to. Wherever a button was missing, it has been replaced with a vintage one from my long-kept collection. Wherever a hem had given way, I fix it by hand. By the time it leaves this room it is genuinely clean, pressed, whole, and looked over one final time before I let myself believe it is ready. Not restored. Not made new. Just returned to a state where it can be loved again, by someone who was not there the first time.
She keeps one foot in daylight and one in something dimmer, solid where the tweed sits and nearly gone where the tulle takes over, and refuses to say which half is the real one. Walk fast enough and the two start trading places. She was built for the hour when a room stops deciding whether it is still afternoon.