Current Custom Order Turn-Around Time: 6 Months

Have a pattern you'd like to work with?  Absolutely!  Just let me know if you want it returned with your order or if you'd like to donate it to my collection for future customers.  You would receive attribution credit on my website and social media. 

Your own fabric and trimmings?  You sure can!  In fact, it ensures that you are getting exactly the fabric or buttons/buckles/lace/etc. you had envisioned.  Need help picking appropriate fabrics?  No problem - I can help guide you with that.  Just make sure you know exactly how much yardage will be required before you purchase it!

Of course!  We would be happy to make your garment in whatever fabric you like!  It doesn't have to be authentic or vintage if you're just looking to capture a look or a feeling, but aren't concerned about authenticity.  This is the customized item of YOUR dreams - no one else's!  Have fun and go with what makes it truly unique to you!

Unfortunately, no.  While I understand circumstances arise that may change your situation in the middle of an order period, we cannot afford to take the hit on our end either.

If you cancel your order, you will lose your 50% deposit.  (This deposit covers fabric/patterns/trim purchased for your order, and time invested in researching and prepping for the work.)  

Custom orders cannot be returned as they are one of a kind and made specifically for you.  If you have any issues with fit or finish (which I am confident you will not :), please reach out to me right away and I will work to make it right!  

• BE SURE TO TAKE ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS!  (if you have ANY questions - please ask!)
• BE SURE TO ASK ALL QUESTIONS PRIOR TO ORDERING!

A base custom order will come with machine finishing (hems, facings, button holes, etc.) and a standard fabric (cotton, or similarly priced fabric) with pictured sleeve styles and hem lengths.  But you are by no means constrained by the basics.  The sky's the limit!  (You just might have to pay for it.  :))

• Fabric: content, color, pattern
• Trimmings: lace, ribbon, rickrack, buttons, buckles
• Hand finishing v. machine finishing
• Hand-finished button holes v. machine
• Hem lengths
• Sleeve styles and lengths

NOPE.  Because most of the clothing I recreate pre-dates the regular use of a serger, I just don't use one.  I do use a variety of period finishing techniques such as pinking, zig-zag stitching, flat-felling or French seaming.  If you are particular about the finishing technique, just be sure to add that to your specifications.

Again, nope.  Because these garments are being made specifically to fit your body, I often re-work seams to get the perfect fit.  What that means is you might see more than one line of stitching on the inside of seams from the fitting process.  This is part of what makes your garment completely unique and not a mass-produced item bought off the rack.  Do not fear though!  This in no way will detract from the outer appearance or the gloriousness of the finished garment!  

While not as often, I definitely take commissions for men's wear as well.  I do NOT make tailored suits and coats like you'd get from a tailor's shop (with layers of specific padding and interlining).  But I will make what would have been done by the home sewist at the time.