About Fine Thee
Fine, as in the fabric. Thee, as in you — the way vintage fashion taught me how to dress well.
How a childhood spent thrifting became a clothing brand
I'm Mihaela — founder, designer, pattern maker, and the face behind most of Fine Thee's designs. I've loved fashion since I was a child. The problem was I couldn't afford it — not the real kind, anyway. So I thrifted. Hundreds of pieces, then thousands. And what started as necessity turned into an education: old clothing taught me how to recognise good fabric, how to read a well-made seam, how to tell the difference between something built to last and something built to sell.
After a career in advertising, I returned to my lifelong passion — sewing by hand, knitting, reworking garments — and built this studio to create the clothing I wanted to wear and couldn't find anywhere else.
I started Fine Thee in 2018 on Etsy, selling vintage silk blouses and cashmere sweaters — the kind of enduring pieces I'd spent years learning to find. But I kept running into the same problem: I could never find the right trousers to go with them. So I decided to make them myself. First six months learning to sew. Another six studying pattern making. By the time I'd handled thousands of garments, I arrived at one clear conclusion: I love classic style, but I refuse to let it be boring. The most powerful tool for that isn't the silhouette — it's always the fabric.
Classic style is the safest choice. But safe can easily tip into forgettable. The difference is almost always in the fabric.
What Fine Thee is today
Fine Thee is a small, independent atelier in Bucharest, Romania. Every piece is made to order from 100% natural fibers sourced from Italy and raw silk and special cottons woven locally in Romania. We've been making clothing since 2016 and selling on Etsy since 2018, with over 3,000 orders and a 4.9 rating built one garment at a time.
I design every pattern, choose every fabric, and model every piece myself. My sister — a trained photographer — captures each garment the way it deserves to be seen. Genica, our seamstress, sews every piece with the kind of precision that only comes from someone who genuinely cares about the work. Between the three of us, Fine Thee is made entirely by hand, entirely with intention.
We start with the fabric
I don't start with a trend or a season. I start with a fabric. Sometimes it's the weight of a wool I find at a deadstock supplier in Italy — selected in person, roll by roll, for how it drapes, breathes, and ages. Sometimes it's a locally woven raw silk that arrives with more personality than I expected. The fabric tells me what it wants to become.
We work exclusively with natural materials: wool, silk, cashmere, linen, and cotton. Natural fabrics are not a marketing choice. They are more comfortable, more durable, and more beautiful over time than any synthetic alternative. A silk blouse softens with wear. A wool trouser holds its shape for years. Linen becomes more itself with every wash.
Every material gets treated seriously, regardless of its price point. Linen gets the same tailoring details I'd use on cashmere: welt pockets, unexpected collars, pattern pieces that make people look twice. The fabric is always the starting point — and usually the whole story.
I want Fine Thee to be classic shapes that don't need to try hard, because the fabric does the work.
Made to order, made for you
Every Fine Thee garment is made after your order is placed — in small batches, one piece at a time. We offer standard sizes alongside fully custom sizing: send us your measurements and we cut to your proportions, not a generic template. This is how tailoring has always worked. We've simply kept it that way.
It also means we don't overproduce. We don't have warehouses of unsold stock. What we make, we make for someone specific — and that specificity shows in the finish.
Our silhouettes draw from classic tailoring — the high-waisted trouser, the fluid silk blouse, the structured blazer — refined for modern comfort. A pocket where you need one. A lining that moves with you. A length that's right for your height, not the sample size. We don't design for trends. We design for the woman who already knows what she likes.
On pricing
Everything at Fine Thee is made to order — nothing sits in a warehouse waiting. Our prices reflect the real cost of high-quality natural fabrics and the time it takes to make something properly. We don't inflate prices to allow for dramatic markdowns or artificial sales. What you see is what it costs to make something well.
We offer discounts for multiple orders because we believe in helping women build long-lasting wardrobes, not make impulse purchases. You'll also find a small selection of discounted samples — pieces used for photoshoots, fittings, or exchanges — because we prefer to see every garment worn and enjoyed, not stored away.
What inspires us
Books, films, cities — Bucharest, Paris, anywhere with good light and old buildings. Vintage tailoring. The way certain women have always dressed entirely on their own terms: Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Women who never seem to be performing style, just living in it.
But mostly, the people who wear Fine Thee inspire me most. A custom request becomes a permanent pattern. A question about fit leads to a new silhouette. The collection grows because the women wearing it help shape it.
Fine Thee is on Etsy at etsy.com/shop/FineThee and on Instagram at @fine_thee, where I share the process behind each piece — the fabrics, the patterns, the work in progress.
If you have questions about fit, fabric, or what piece might suit you best — write to us. That conversation is part of what we do.
With care,
Mihaela