The house
About Us
A young house with an old trade behind it. We offer vestments in standard sizes and made to measure, check them against the tradition they are made for, and send them anywhere a service is held.
The Clergy Couture is a young house working in an old trade. We make vestments and clergy apparel to measure, for priests, pastors, deacons, bishops and the parishes that clothe them, and we send them wherever a service is held.
We are not going to tell you we have been doing this since 1892. We have not. What we can tell you is exactly how the garments are made, who makes them, and what happens when one of them is wrong.
Why we started
Buying a vestment is a strangely difficult thing to do well. The traditional makers do beautiful work at prices a single-priest parish cannot reach. Below them sits a large middle market of catalogue garments cut to three sizes, photographed on a mannequin, and shipped without anyone asking which tradition you serve or whether the chasuble will actually sit on your shoulders.
There is a gap in between: garments cut to a real person's measurements, made from cloth that behaves properly under church lighting, at a price a working priest can justify. That gap is the whole reason this house exists.
Who we make for
Individual clergy, mostly — a priest replacing a chasuble, a deacon ordering a first stole, a minister who needs a cassock robe that fits across the shoulders. Beyond that: parishes and cathedrals building a seasonal set, seminaries clothing an intake, religious communities ordering habits, and families commissioning a garment for an ordination or a jubilee.
We work across traditions rather than for one — Roman Catholic, Anglican and Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic use, and independent ministry. If your use differs from what we have written anywhere on this site, tell us and we will make it your way. The colour guide and the glossary set out the distinctions we work to.
The company behind the shop
This store is operated by Clergy Couture Group LLC, a limited liability company registered in the State of Wyoming, United States. Every order, invoice, refund and piece of correspondence is issued in that name, and that is the name that appears on your card or bank statement.
Clergy Couture Group LLC30 N Gould St, Suite # 68152
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States
Please note
The address above is our registered office and is for company correspondence only. Garments for return, exchange or repair must not be sent there — every return is issued a shipping address with its authorisation. See returns and exchanges.
Where to start
If you know what you want, the collections are the place to begin. If you are ordering vestments for the first time, or for someone else, read the sizing guide first, then write to us. We answer questions about tradition, colour and cut gladly and at length — it is the part of this work we enjoy most.
From cloth to vestment
What goes into every garment
Where the garments are made
Sialkot, in the Punjab
Sialkot has been a centre of skilled hand and machine work for well over a century, and the trades that matter to vestment making are all present there in depth: tailoring, embroidery, braid and galloon work, and the finishing that separates a garment which hangs correctly from one that merely fits.
We say so plainly because you should know where your vestments come from before you buy them, not after.
How ordering works
To your tradition, and to your numbers
You tell us the tradition, because Roman, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist and Orthodox use do not cut, name or wear these garments identically. Choose a standard size, or send body measurements and we add the ease.
If a garment cannot be dispatched within 5 to 7 days, we email you within 24 hours of your order with the expected delivery date.
Embroidery
We will never describe one as the other
Machine embroidery is precise, repeatable and far less expensive. Hand goldwork sits above the cloth rather than in it, and has a depth machine work cannot reach — and costs accordingly.
What we will not do is describe one as the other, on a product page or anywhere else.
What comes out of it
A garment that hangs, and goes on hanging
Full linings, interlining where the cloth needs body it does not have on its own, finished seams, and hems with enough allowance left in them to be let down years later. None of it shows from the nave. All of it is the difference between a vestment worn for three years and one worn for thirty.
If it does not fit, send it back and we will alter it. If we made it wrong, we pay the postage both ways; if the measurements supplied were wrong, the return postage is paid by you.
Plainly
Two lists, both of them binding
What we do
- Ask which tradition a garment is for, rather than assuming
- Email you within 24 hours with the expected delivery date if a garment cannot be dispatched within 5 to 7 days
- Publish where the garments are made
- Alter or replace, at our cost, a garment we made wrong
- Say no to a date we cannot meet, rather than take the order
What we will not do
Unusual to publish, and published for exactly that reason: it is the part of a shop a customer cannot verify for themselves.
- Invent reviews, ratings or testimonials — when a review appears here it will be from someone who bought the garment
- Run countdown timers, fake stock warnings or invented original prices
- Machine-translate liturgical terms
- Claim heritage, certifications or awards we do not hold
- Describe machine embroidery as hand work
- Declare a parcel as a gift or under-declare its value, whatever the reason given
Start a conversation
Tell us what the occasion is
An ordination, a jubilee, a parish replacing a worn set. Write to us with the tradition, the season and the date, and we will tell you honestly what is possible in the time.
Who you are dealing with
- support@theclergycouture.com
- +1 (628) 272 4411
- Clergy Couture Group LLC30 N Gould St, Suite # 68152Sheridan, WY 82801United States
Company correspondence only. Please do not post garments to this address.