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Quality. Expertise. Solidarity. 7 0 5 I N D E P E N D E N T S I G N A T O R Y C O S T U M E H O U S E At the end of 2019, two ambitious women le the safety of their full time positions to forge out and start a business of their own. By February of 2020, they found a property to rent, repainted the brick wall to white to brighten up the place, laid new flooring to something more comfortable and esthetic, and added a HVAC to combat the cold winters and hot summers. At the end of February, they opened their doors. And in March, the world stopped. Jenny Han says that she and her business partner, Myung Oh, aka Mrs. Oh (no relation to the tailor Mr. Oh), had just opened their Signatory Custom Made Shop, Stitch Costume, when the pandemic shut everything down. "It was very tough because we had just opened. We were prey much just surviving at that point." But six years later, through the ups and downs of the pandemic and the strikes, Stitch Costume is still here. "It's like when you leave that stability of having it all, working for somebody and then coming out. So, I always tell Mrs. Oh, 'if we're looking at it from a movie … like our character arc? We're just constantly growing and geing stronger.'" Born in South Korea, Jenny Han immigrated with her family to the United States when she was 4 years old. She grew up in Koreatown in Los Angeles and graduated from Palisades High School. Aer high school, Han wasn't sure what she wanted to do. Taking out a loan to go to college without direction did not make sense to her. A friend suggested she L Stitch Costume By Andrea Napier Jenny Han and Mrs. Oh. 44 FALL 2026