Traditional Catholic Vestments

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I love, and always did love vestments. Are there any website that I can order catalogues from?

I have already tried
Almy, Gaspard, and Slabbinck

Also, if there is a more fitting category for this, you are free to move it there! 🙂

*Please kindly note, that if this website or company supports womens ordination, do not list it, for I am dead-set against it.
 
luzarvestments.co.uk/ both new and used. There are a few others, but none that have such a grand assortment on the internet. I’ll poke around and see what else I’ve got bookmarked.
 
\*Please kindly note, that if this website or company supports womens ordination, do not list it, for I am dead-set against it.\

**Almy frequently has women modelling their vestments, even bishops’ regalia.

Companies are also in business to make money, even vestment companies, and they will generally sell to anyone who orders from them.**
 
If I recall correctly Almy and a couple others who market vestments are Anglican/Episcopalian owned and run. There are any number of Catholic owned Vestment sellers who can use the business. There are also smaller custom taylors who deal only in clerical apparel and vestments. La Lame in NYC does superior work, but I don’t think they are online. They do both eastern and western vestments.
 
I began collecting old vestments a couple of years ago, both gothic and Roman. Usually I get them on Ebay. I have been given several by folks that were clearing out their collections. Its tough to get complete sets unless you’ve got 300 to 500 bucks to spare. Usually sets are missing items and have fabric designs that are almost impossible to match. And violet sets are really tough to match as there are so many shades of violet.

New vestments will run from 500 to 2000 bucks for a complete set and Dalmatics are an additional sum…

There is a company in India that makes both new gothic and roman sets for sale on ebay. These can be bought for a reasonable amount. I just don’t care for their type of designs. I believe the seller is “F for Frank”. Just search for chasubles on ebay and they should come up.
If you are looking for OF vestments then the prices are really cheap.
 
As for Almy, I judge them by what is in their print catalogue. I really didn’t explore their website. Anybody know about Gaspard?
 
I’ve ordered a few things from FforFrank in the past. If you are picky, and on a budget, you can get good quality, (not great) but well made vestments. I have given sets to a few priests who now celebrate the EF. They are exceptional as starter sets for a parish, and do add to the liturgy. I also had him make a replacement luna for a monstrance I picked up that was missing the original. I was very pleased with it. Some day, when I have the money I’ll get it fitted with real crystal, rather than just glass, but for the time being the poor parish that has it is able to have exposition and benediction which they could not do in the solemn rite, but only simple previously.

Well I’ll try and search my brain, aside from some individuals who do a good job, and are moderatly priced, (some sede, and others SSPX adherents) I can’t seem to recall. If however you find youself in Paris, go to the Marche aux Puces, at St. Ouen, there are usually multiple sets, many complete and in good condition. Religious goods stores and St. Vincent de Paul Thrift shops (if you get in good with the people who run them) are also good places. Since I send traditional books, vestments and other items to missions they sometimes save them for me, and charge me less than they would normally. I have found a few chalices and ciboriae as well as old breviaries at non-catholic thrift shops too.
 
Yeah, whenever you seem to find a good vestment website, they are either Sedevacantist or the SSPV or some other radical schismatic group.
 
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