Appointment only · Lewes, East Sussex
Wedding dresses, everyday alterations
and heirloom repair.
By a Royal Ballet costume maker, from a private studio in Lewes. Twelve years building costume for film, television and the West End — corsetry, tulle and period womenswear — and the same hands on your hem.
From £10 · £30 for bridal · deducted from your final bill
Select costume making credits
Wicked · House of the Dragon · Dune: Part Two · Wednesday
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child · Hamilton · Matilda · The Royal Ballet
Twelve years. Verifiable on IMDb.
Services
Three kinds of work
From the studio in Lewes, and regularly for clients travelling from Brighton, Eastbourne and across East and West Sussex.
Her own dress · made and worn by Eleanor
Bridal & Evening
Wedding dresses, bridesmaids and anything worn for an occasion. Hems on layered and structured skirts, bustling — fastening a train up off the floor for the reception — bodice resizing, corset restructuring, and beading and lace repair. Silk, velvet and bias-cut fabric handled as it needs to be.
Hemming from £120 · Bodice work from £80
Everyday
The clothes you wear the rest of the time. Hems, taking in and letting out, waistbands and zips, sleeves shortened, jeans kept at their original stitched edge, and coats and jackets relined.
Hems from £25 · Taking in from £35
Textile Restoration
Heirloom gown modernisation, invisible mending and patching, garment remodelling, and period-correct zips, hooks and fastenings.
Mending from £60 · Remodelling by consultation
All pricing is indicative. Every garment is quoted at consultation, on construction, fabric and complexity.
Ask a question first — it costs nothing — or book a consultation.
Getting married?
Tell me the date and I will tell you the last day I can take the dress on.
I take bridal work on no later than three months before the wedding, and earlier through the summer when the diary fills. Inside that it is rush work at a surcharge, and only if the diary allows — ask rather than assume.
The Atelier promise
Nothing is measured out loud,
and the tape goes back in the drawer.
Every fitting is private and unhurried. No number is commented on, and the only question in the room is how the garment sits on you. More about the studio.
Book early. Bridal work needs three months at the very least, and longer through the summer. Inside that it is rush work at a surcharge, and only if the diary allows — ask rather than assume.
How it works
From first enquiry to final fit
01
The consultation
Ask first, or book straight in. The consultation fee holds your time — £10 everyday, £20 restoration, £30 bridal and evening — and comes off the final bill.
02
The private fitting
Bring the shoes and underwear you will wear on the day: heel height changes your posture, and posture changes how the whole garment hangs. Then a relaxed pinning session, and a precise quote.
03
The workroom
Industrial machinery for structure, couture hand-finishing for everything that shows.
04
The final fit
Return to try on the finished garment, draped as it should be, ready for the day.
Bring me the garment.
A private appointment in a Lewes studio, with the person who will do the work. From £10, deducted in full from your final bill.
Asking costs nothing, and I will tell you honestly if the answer is no. Send me a message.