enquiries at Cote & Cutler dot com

Bess and Karl are here to help you make history come alive.

Whether it's your wedding gown, court garb, or special accessories for a film, theatre or TV production, we endeavour to provide the highest standard of service and accuracy according to your requirements and budget.

Come and have a talk to us in person, give us a call or drop us an e-email. We have an extensive pictorial and textual library covering all historical periods from Ancient Egyptian times to the 1960s, and you are welcome to bring your own ideas and sketches for us to work from.

We have experience working in the theatre, film and television industries, and can provide services from designing, making and sourcing your costumes, period props and accessories, right down to costume and props supervision on set.

The main thing is that we want to help you get it right, first time!

Want to see more of our custom work? Have a browse through our Couture Gallery.

A note about Custom Orders

We are kept very busy producing our regular items for our web site, and spend most weekends attending markets, fairs and re-enactment events. As such, we can only take on a limited number of custom orders per year.

As a rough guide, custom orders for accessories can take between 6-10 weeks to turn around, depending on our schedule and the complexity of the item. Likewise, for costume, we would like to advise that there is a minimum of 8 weeks turnaround, up to 16 weeks, depending on the size of the order.