Bespoke

We thought our sale last month was our last, but we still have plenty left. Everything truly must go this time, as we leave in early November.

We have fabric, art/craft supplies, plants, electronics, furniture, housewares, store fixtures, and more.

Saturday October 8
10:00 - 7:00
2650 Cherokee Street @ Ohio

Just a reminder that our workroom closeout sale is this weekend, Saturday and Sunday from 9-4 at 2650 Cherokee Street @ Ohio.

As a bonus, we're also staging our personal moving sale on the same days. We have art, furniture, plants, washer/dryer, tools, and a lifetime of stuff. Maybe two lifetimes.

We look forward to seeing you.

Workroom Closeout!

It's happened. We have a buyer for our building, and we're preparing to globetrot full-time, starting in November. So we really, truly are closing out everything left over. The glorious results of 40 years of professional sewing and patternmaking are ready for new owners.

Beautiful fabrics for sale at wholesale and below. Bolt quantities and remnants of silks and other natural fibers. Vintage, handwoven textiles, embroidery and laces.

Wide range of finished fit samples with graded first patterns for men and women.

Professional male and female dress forms with legs, sewing notions including zippers, buttons and closures.

Craft supplies, storage units, and general creative fodder.

Can be viewed by appointment ([email protected]) or Saturday and Sunday, September 10-11 from 9AM to 4PM

Thank You!

After 7 years, Bespoke is officially closing down. We’re ready to take on the next chapter in our lives: a rich, rewarding, and well-deserved retirement.

We’re indebted to every one of our supporters and customers. Thank you for letting us serve you.

We probably won't be paying much attention to this page, but you can continue to reach us at [email protected].

We're down to the last of our masks, all still marked down to $5. There are over 40 masks still in inventory, so there are still plenty of styles and sizes.

However, we'll be shutting the web store down on the 23rd, so if you'd like some final mask bargains, don't waste another moment!

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We've marked all of our remaining masks down to $5 each, even the specialty fabrics. Quantities are limited, so shop now.

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Final Sale

We still have a lot of fitting samples left, and they've all been marked down to just $10 each, no matter their original cost.

We're also still selling lots of fabrics at either $1/pound or $2/yard.

If you'd like to shop the sale, please reach out for an appointment.

We still have quite a few samples left, and lots of fabric. Samples have been marked down 90%, so there are incredible bargains just waiting to be yours.

And there's plenty of fabric left at $1/pound or $2/yard.

Please reach out if you'd like to make an appointment.

We're winding down the mask business. Our remaining inventory is 50% off. There are limited styles and quantities, so if you need masks, please visit our web store.

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Our sale is still running. We still have tons of awesome fabrics by the pound and the yard, and our samples are on sale for 75% off retail. We're taking appointments, so drop us a message if you'd like to come shop the sale.

Our sample and materials sale is running through the month of May. We have samples at 1/2 off, and tons of fabrics (@ $1/pound or $2/yard), buttons, notions, etc.

Sale hours are Monday - Saturday 10-4. We’re taking appointments on the hour, as we’re limiting attendance to no more than three people at a time.

Please reach out to us here to make an appointment.

The End Of An Era (Mostly)...

We opened Bespoke's doors to the public in November of 2014 with a few introductory pieces and a promise. Over the last six-plus years we've added dozens of new styles and 100s of new fabrics. We've helped you through weddings, yours and your children's, dressed you for galas, and prepped you for that new job.

As rewarding as Bespoke has been, it's still a small business that needs constant care and feeding to be healthy. While the pandemic has killed lots of businesses, big and small, that's not exactly what's happened here. Rather, the pandemic has forced us to take a time-out, giving us the opportunity to stop and really think about what we want from this next stage in our lives.

The next step in our journey? Working less. Much, much less. While we're not quite ready for full-on retirement, we're going to pare back substantially. Our focus for Bespoke going forward will be on three areas.

First, we'll continue to make masks until people don't want them (orderable at https://bespokesaintlouis.square.site). Second, we'll continue to make custom fit corsets. Why these two things and nothing else? Because, frankly, they're the easiest things we do. They're low impact and keep our hands just busy enough.

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Classes

Finally, we'll focus on teaching. Dorothy has an unparalleled wealth of knowledge, and hasn't lost her thirst for passing that knowledge on. Her expertise is in draping/patternmaking, couture construction methods, and fabric embellishment, such as dying and painting.

If you're interested in 1:1 workshops, please reach out and let us know what you need. We've done everything from multi-session training on particular topics ("How do I make a corset?") to single-session problem solving for specific problems ("I'm stuck on this armscye. Help!").

If you're interested in small classes, let us know what kind of classes you'd sign up for. We have ideas of our own, unsurprisingly, but we want to make sure we're offering classes people are interested in taking.

We're Having A Sale!

Oh, do we have all sorts of things to sell. We have fabric, both by the yard and by the pound. We have buttons and notions and supplies. We have tools and chairs and we even have things for free.

We also have... wait for it... samples! We have a huge library of fit and design samples we've built up over the years, and they can be yours for a song. Well, we might give you a discount for a really good song, but there will have to be cash in the deal, as well.

The sale will run throughout the month of May, and will be by appointment only. While we're both fully vaccinated, we don't want to create an unsafe situation for y'all, so we'll be limiting the number of attendees at any given time.

We're taking appointments now, so please message us here or call the studio at 314-665-2665. And please share this with anyone you think would be interested. We hope to have a busy May.

Thank You...

We are grateful to each and every one of you for making the journey to this point so fulfilling.

Bespoke updated their business hours.

If you've been to our web store for a mask lately, you'd have seen a note that we were out of town until mid-March.

We're back and filling orders again, so stop by at bespokesaintlouis.square.site and mask up.

We're not out of the woods quite yet.