Step into a realm where creativity knows no bounds. Our brand is a symphony of design, technique and meticulous attention to detail. Each piece I create is a unique masterpiece tailored to your individual style.

Designs from Brooks LTD in Denver, Colorado set you apart from the crowd.

For this reason, I created several showstopping looks for a Bastille Day fashion show in Denver, Colorado.   Vintage textiles combining with modern fabrics to create these breezy, one-of-a-kinds frocks.  Here you see where creativity knows no bounds.  Seriously, think table napkins!  Elegant, pristine and very rare from collectors of fine linens.

Photo:  Bahar Samani

Currently I am using tabletop textiles: exquisite napkins and tablecloths from vintage collectors. The quality of these materials is unmatched in today’s marketplace of fast fashion.

Sometimes I create the accessories that go with the designs, completing the looks.

Fast Fashion

You may wonder, “What is fast fashion?”.   It’s a business model that mass-produces cheap, poor-quality items meant to replicate recent high-end trends and designs. It’s considered ‘fast’ fashion because the production is fast and the life spans of the items are fast.  Consumers quickly discard the low cost made items for whatever the next season offers.

Fast fashion also has devastating consequences on the environment and the people who make the items.

Because of this, workers’ rights are eroded during the production process and the discarded clothing ends up in landfills.

Slow Fashion

In contrast we proudly embrace the concept of slow fashion. Slow fashion honors craftsmanship and quality materials. Our pieces are meant to be treasured and enjoyed, then passing down from generation to generation.  I like to call them wearable art work.

Experience personalized consultations

Finally, experience the luxury of a personalized consultation and our bespoke pieces that speak to your soul. Embrace the unexpected and infuse playfulness into your wardrobe with our timeless creations that promise to bring joy into your life. Celebrate the art of dressing authentically in a wearable art dress.

Discover the perfect artisian piece to elevate your style. Shop now

Reach out to schedule a one on one zoom call here.

Photo:  Bahar Samani

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Photo: Hardy Klahold

Custom Jean Jacket

When Ball Arena approached me to design a super custom piece for a super-secret client, I could hardly believe it. After all, the custom piece was for THE Shania Twain. As in, the country crossover star who transcended genres to dominate the pop music charts, too. As in, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose tunes were the soundtrack of the 90s and early 2000s. THAT Shania Twain.

Needless to say, I wanted to impress her much.

Creating a custom jean jacket especially for Shania Twain meant designing a personalized piece both inspired by her and featuring my signature Brooks LTD elements. I watched her interviews and pulled out specific words and phrases Shania used. It is my sincere hope these words resonate with her and that she enjoys the personalization as much as the jacket itself.

Design Details Matter

Using a Japanese technique called Sashiko stitching, I created hand-stitched details. Sashiko, a traditional way of mending and decorating textiles to further their life span to prevent them from going into the landfill, has captivated my spirit as it is relaxing and therapeutic to slow down and stitch where the thread takes me. Sashiko is also in my current collection, with rivers of thread stitched on easy to wear garments.

Shania’s custom jean jacket is made from recycled denim, including functional pockets on the frayed-edge stylized sleeves. Even the former belt loops were upcycled to hold sunglasses! The jacket includes a custom printed silk charmeuse lining and backside fringe created from tasteful sequins on cotton chainette thread for some Western flair. I wanted the front to be classic, chic and tailored, so that Shania could accessorize as needed. As you turn, she shows off a playful vibe from the color changing sequins.

Jacket Spotted on Instagram

I noticed she recently wore the jean jacket on an Instagram video with Billy Ray Cyrus announcing a reissue of one of her iconic albums. It’s thrilling to see Shania Twain as a walking piece of art in a Brooks LTD custom made jean jacket!

Proud of Pieces: Custom or Not

As a Colorado-based clothing designer, I love getting to design and create custom pieces for women across the globe. After 45+ years of making unique fashions, my designs are typically worn by women right here in the West. It is a joy whenever women happily wear Brooks LTD fashions — both custom pieces and from my ready-to-wear collections!

Brooks Luby wearing her own upcycled jacket showing off Shania Twain’s custom denim jacket

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Details Matter

This beautiful one-shoulder design has a see-through waistline and embossed details on the skirt. Hand-stitching is a feature of slow fashion adding a unique, artisanal quality to clothing. The layered see-though skirt has a horsehair hem that creates incredible movement as it appears to float around your body.

Compact for travel

The Morgan dress is a beauty, in addition, she’s also tough.  Thanks to the unique materials this dress can be rolled up and packed away for traveling. Just pop it out upon arrival and you’re ready for a glass of champagne!  Moreover, the color and design are perfect for summer garden parties, guest cocktail wear, social occasions, or even as a youthful Mother-of-the-Bride.

Watch for new neoprene pieces in the fall season. This material is taking off as a great option for everyday wear like dresses and jackets.  Exciting designs await the arrival of the new fabric.

Check out this find along with other unique pieces, looking for their forever homes.  As a matter of fact these are special, marked-down prices found at From The Vault.

Model:  @dorotka777

Photographer:  @Hardysphotos

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Details

I add stitched details by hand or with my sewing machine. Sometimes it’s the combination of stitching on the machine and hand stitching that adds the dimension I desire for a piece. Take my classic berry jacket or duster, for instance.  It’s a design I’ve created and used for many years, but now it’s morphed into this collection as a stitched piece.

The berry jacket can take you out on the town, to yoga class or cozied up by the fireplace with friends.  Did I mention it’s a perfect wrap to wear to a wedding? Made of eco-friendly ponte fabric, it glides over your body like a comfortable piece of sleepwear.  It moves as you move, draping beautifully, whether you pair it with fuzzy slippers or over-the-knee boots.

Stream of Consciousness

As an artist I need to create and express my stream of consciousness.  It relaxes me in a world filled with lots of noise and confusion. And as a clothing designer, I’ve always had a desire to look different than everyone else. This element of stitching on garments has proven to be a rewarding way for me to explore unique dimensions in fashion while finding inner peace as well.

Each of us chooses how we present ourselves to the world. Perhaps a versatile, but original piece of clothing is just the thing your wardrobe and you need.

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Photo:  Fred Langer

Classic Little Black Dress

The Turner Tank Dress is our latest take on the classic little black dress. Style it for warmer weather with bare arms and legs. Or layer it, for the cooler months, over a button-up, a turtleneck or a long-sleeved t-shirt. Heels dress it up, while sneakers or Birkenstocks make it casual, but chic. You could even wear it over jeans or leggings for a completely different look. The options are endless with this incredible piece.

Photo;  Fred Langer

Slow Fashion

As with all our clothing, this dress is made locally in Colorado by a small group of creatives. It’s the product of ‘slow-fashion’, a movement that honors and values products created by hand and not mass-produced in a factory. It’s quality over quantity. Adding to its artisanal essence, The Turner Tank Dress features unique hand-stitched details and a subtle peek-a-boo slit on the skirt that adds style and sexiness.

Timeless Design

You’ll reach for this dress again and again. Wear it to the theater with a heeled boot or toss it on over your yoga clothes so you look chic at a post-workout lunch. It’s perfect for travel too – so comfy on plane rides or long car trips. Timeless and terrific…that’s the Turner Tank Dress, shop it here.

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Onward 2021, here we go!  Thank you everyone for coming to our first virtual sale last week.  It was an honor to present my items in front of a camera.  The main thing I took away from the experience is how everyone interacted during the Q & A.  It was the closest thing to being live but on a camera!  One thing about the sign of the times is that most of us are getting comfortable being online in front of a camera zooming.

Thank you from the bottom of my ❤️.

In this virtual world I am learning so much, I hope you are too.  My designs and fabrics are luxurious and sometimes it’s hard to see on line.  I am planning an open studio August 20-21 in the Denver area at my private atelier.  We are happy to schedule a zoom with those of you out of state where I can walk you through the items up close and personal.  Reach out here.

Out of this virtual experience we have created a sale page on our web site.  Visit it here where you can see the jumpsuits in linen and cotton.

NEWS for AUGUST 2021

Our next exciting news is that we will be participating in a local fashion runway show August 16th.  Read about it here.

It’s more than western style, or western dress, it’s an attitude.

My vision is elbow length gloves worn with silk charmeuse.  Ready to go out and be seen.

WARDROBE: @BrooksLTD

Model:  @dorotka77

Photographer:  @shelfranciscreative

Makeup:  @gabbyfirsherartistry

Moreover, In the next few weeks I will share some of my thoughts and revelations with you.

Until then, happy summer and thank you for following us!

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I share our meeting as an opportunity for you to dive deeper into the relationships and connections that exist in your individual world.

EllynAnne Geisel author of The Apron Book and the writer/curator of Apron Chronicles: a Patchwork of American Recollections, her traveling exhibit

Storytelling

EllynAnne’s storytelling begins with the origin of her 20-year apron journey and her discovery of the apron’s connecting threads. She writes:

“In 1999, when my youngest went to sleep-away college, my chosen career as a full-time homemaker and stay-at-home mommy was at its end. I envisioned a second career for myself – a writer. My first article, I decided should be about the apron as the domestic symbol of what I’d just done with 26 years of my life.”

But there was a problem with her subject choice: she didn’t own an apron.

“Visiting several thrift stores before finding an apron in more than rag taggle condition, I spied a skirt of sunny yellow cotton with a wide waistband the color of periwinkles, and four evenly spaced narrow bands of colored bias tape. At a cost of twenty-five cents, this was the apron that set me on an apron journey and changed my life.”

Journey

“In the twenty years since I began this apron journey, I have been privy to hundreds of stories, and I have learned that an apron memory isn’t a scholarly dissertation. It isn’t mired in dusty facts and details. It is a story of life and memory that engages and catches you up in the telling. You need not have walked in the storyteller’s shoes to know the journey.

APRON CHRONICLES: a Patchwork of American Recollections debuted in 2004, 3 years post-9/11. Such was a time when our sense of security was trampled, our trust in one another rife with mistrust. The exhibit then and now offers a respite from a climate of societal outrage and chaos through the unexpected domestic symbol: the apron; the storytellers’ memories triggered by the apron much more about life than fabric, illustrating how much we are more alike than different.

The storytellers’ voices are the patchwork of our America…the stitches uneven in places, but stitches all the same. The aprons’ ties bind them – and us – together, because when it comes to the journey of the human experience, we are all in it, together.”

From Ellyne’s personal collection of Aprons and connecting threads

APRON CHRONICLES is a wonderful juxtaposition of storytelling, photography and aprons. Going along with the theme of connecting threads, one framed apron resonated with me. It’s an embroidered apron, delicately stitched and a beauty within its own right.

Embroidered and stitched beautifully

Next to it reads:  ” Stitchery was once a domestic art learned through practice and patience.  With its embroidery perfectly stitched and painstakingly tiny, and the silk ribboned waistband and rosettes, this apron was a testament tothe feminine skills of the seamstress.  Of the hundreds of aprons I own, this apron – its sheer fabric the color of a girl’s sweet blush – is the most captivating.”  from the Apron Collection of Ellyn Anne Geisel.

Exhibit of Aprons and connecting threads in its final days

APRON CHRONICLES traveled America for 16 years. The exhibit ends its travels at History Colorado (12th and Broadway in Denver).  The last day of the exhibit is Monday, May 31, 2021.  EllynAnne will present her final curator chat Saturday May 29, 2021 at 9:15 am.  Tickets must be purchased in advance:

https://www.historycolorado.org/exhibit/apron-chronicles.

Or by calling the museum 303/447-8679

Relationships

I’m so honored that I had the pleasure of meeting and connecting before the exhibit closed.  As we discussed, I believe there is a synergy between us that our paths will not only cross again but we will come up with something interesting through our connecting threads energy!  Who knew that aprons and connecting threads, stitching, and relationships would have such an enduring meaning in our lives.

Thank you for our deep rooted common understanding of how fashion and threads became the begining of a new found relationship.

Connections

As you wander through your everyday life remember that the connections you make through your individual passion can have a much deeper meaning than only that  connection.  It may be the vehicle to profound wisdom, shared joy and learning new things.  Keep an open mind where something small may seem insignificant at the time as it could turn into a huge heartfelt experience.

In need of a special ensemble, lifestyle or something for an important occasion we can help.  We’ve got you covered, literally!  Reach out here.

Ties that bind us

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” Now, moms are encouraged to wear a look that makes them feel fashionable and confident (with the bride’s approval of course)” a quote from The Knot by by Sarah Hanlon.

I know Barbara well, she’s been a follower for years.  She loves blue. Pulling out all  stops with a special textile (pleather and tulle) with blue as the accent color.  Working around that theme I  put together different shades of blue in different textiles, all 100% silk.  With my current knowlege of the Art of Japense Draping I began the process which can be appropriate for Mother of the Groom or Mother of the Bride as well as for a speaking engagement, or any event that you may be participating in in the near future.

Documenting the finished product

I choose to make artisan clothing for Mother of the Bride & Groom which has delightful interesting details.  View the front, back and up close in these photos:

The wedding event

Fast forward to the actual event that took place in September 2020, with Covid restrictions in effect.

Barbara, the Mother of the Groom looks very happy in her artisan clothing piece.

Jo Julia Photography

Relationships

With each artful piece I create I’m lucky to say that important relationships are created.  I love working one on one with women helping them to create handmade clothing that speaks to their personal style.  Fashion has no age limits as I believe that age doesn’t matter. Whether it’s for a special occasion or your everyday lifestyle choice, it’s all about how you present yourself to the world.

I  help you with your fashion needs, including a mask that might be appropriate for the occasion. In my newly revised web site I take you through the steps on how easy it is to work with me.  Read about it here.

We are all about one stitch at a time, slow fashion at it’s finest.

 If you have a need for a special garment or know someone in the market, send them our way!

Lastly, we’ve got you covered, literally!  We help you reveal your favorite body parts and conceal ones you’d like to hide.

Here’s to your well being,

Brooks

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Baseball style jackets or bomber jackets for women that are creatively designed can have a place in your wardrobe.  Moreover, bomber jackets does not mean they have to have a logo or a team printed on it.  Take my neoprene bomber jacket for instance.  I fell in love with this fabric and had to create the perfect design for it.  Part baseball style, part jean jacket style.  Taken to a new level.  You can too, think out of the box.  This piece can go to your local grocery store, that picnic in the park or an evening out on the town.  This all depends on how you style it.

Here are 4 ways to style one baseball jacket for women.

Koya from Let Me Show You Different chose to style the baseball style jacket with mustard colored pants and red boots.

Dorothea chose a party ensemble and used the jacket as a cover up.

StyleBeyondAge choose a simple tee shirt and jeans while out on her town in Dallas, Texas.

Finally, Samantha chose a bomber as a cover up in a beach setting.

My design aesthetic includes many ways to wear one piece that is timeless, a show stopper and comfortable. We all like these elements when dressing.   It makes dressing up fun and adds value to your wardrobe.  Something we all need in today’s saturated market, an investment piece.

We’ve got you covered when it comes jackets for women.

Lastly, we’ve got you covered when it comes to jacket dressing both creatively and literally.

Shop this jacket  here.

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A cotton shirt with zipper front can be the basic piece in your wardrobe. You will find yourself going to it time and time again, it’s modern for your everyday lifestyle.  Our cotton shirt is different because of the zippered front.   The keyhole openings on the arm, the ease and flare in the body that allows for movement and the small percentage(3%) of spandex to prevent wrinkles are more elements of uniqueness.

This cotton shirt with zipper front has many uses, it can go to the beach over a swimsuit, to the family gatherings, on a zoom call or out on the town.  We have a special design element that can change the look, see the images below.

Four tips of why our classic cotton shirt is unique

The first thing I would like to point out is that this classic white shirt(comes in pink also) has a center front zippered placket. This allows for ease and movement while wearing it.  I looks polished when wearing it open as a shirt jacket.  The bows create an edgy look.

Removable bows create a new look on the shirt worn as a jacket

The second detail of this classic white shirt(comes in pink also) is the keyhole openings on the arms.  They are subtle but stylish, this could modernize and update your current wardrobe.

Keyhole Classic White Shirt with keyhole opening at arms

The length of this tunic can go over leggings (or in this case with boots)that covers your legs in just the right place.

Bespoke fashion

The cut of this shirt is designed so that a range of sizes can wear it.  One size fits most, here it is as an undergarment to an artful jacket.

Lifestyle clothing

Shop the look

We have this versatile white tunic shirt( comes in lavendar and pink) in our new shop page.  See the selections here.

We’ve got you covered, literally!

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