A Gourmet Sewing Company blends timeless tailoring with couture-level craftsmanship — creating garments built with uncompromising precision, patience, and devotion to detail.
A Gourmet Sewing Company is the private studio of Gloria Gero — seamstress, tailor, dressmaker, and pattern drafter. The work runs from a single hem to a coat rebuilt from the shoulders down to a garment drafted from scratch to your measurements.
Every project is taken one at a time, by appointment, in a workroom set up for one client at a time. You bring the brief; the studio brings forty years of needle, thread, and decisions made well.
Seven disciplines, one seamstress. Each project is priced after consultation and scheduled by hand on the studio calendar.
Gloria Gero trained in the Rundschau pattern drafting method under master pattern maker Sabine David — a system used to build a garment from measurements alone, with no commercial pattern in between. That training is the spine of the studio.
Before opening her own workroom, Gloria sewed for stages and rinks: costumes for the Sierra Nevada Ballet, wardrobe for the San Diego Magnet School of Performing Arts, and pieces for Peggy Fleming's Show on Ice. Costume work teaches you how a garment moves before anything else. It shows.
Every project — whether a five-minute hem or a six-month build — moves through the same four steps.
The workroom sits at 1347 El Dorado Ave A in Gardnerville, in the heart of the Carson Valley. Clients drive in from Minden, Genoa, Carson City, the Lake Tahoe basin, Bishop, and Mammoth — most within an hour, all by appointment.
The questions clients ask most — answered plainly. Anything you don't see here, ask on the phone.
Call to talk through a garment, schedule a drop-off, or book a consultation. Same-week appointments are usually available; complex projects are scheduled out by calendar.