"We Lost Our Shop. Now We're Fighting to Get It Back." — Jarrah & Grace on the Three-Piece Set That Built Their Boutique
Jarrah and Grace have been best friends since they were girls — and business partners for more than 40 years. A few years ago, they lost the little shop they built together. Now they're fighting to reopen it, starting with the three-piece set that's always been the heart of the collection.
Chapel Street, Melbourne. The kettle is on, the light through the side window is going gold, and there's a pile of folded three-piece sets on the cutting table — the same table Jarrah and Grace set up together more than forty years ago. "We didn't have a business plan," Grace laughs. "We had a table, two sewing machines, and a dream that women deserved somewhere that actually felt like theirs."
How it all began
Jarrah and Grace met as girls and never really stopped being in each other's lives. Decades later, they opened a narrow little shop together — no investors, no five-year plan, just two best friends who wanted to build a place where every woman who walked in felt beautiful, seen, and completely at home.
Between them, over four decades, they dressed this city's women through weddings and funerals, first days and last ones, chemo and comebacks and the quiet ordinary mornings in between. And somewhere in all those years, they became quietly obsessed with a single idea.
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Then
Before It Closed
The same little shop, decades apart. "We were girls when we started," Grace says. "We're grandmothers now — and we never once wanted to leave."
More than forty years to perfect one simple idea
The idea was this: a woman should be able to reach into her wardrobe on a grey Tuesday, put on one thing, and walk out the door already feeling complete — no fussing, no "does this go with that," no standing in front of the mirror feeling invisible. Not a dress. Not a uniform. Three pieces that always, quietly, belong together.
That's how the three-piece set was born — a soft, tonal top; wide, forgiving trousers; and, over the top, the piece we love most: a long, open jacket carrying a flowing marbled ink-print, gold running through it like a seam of light. "The jacket does the talking," Jarrah says. "So you don't have to. You put the three on together and you look like you meant it — even on the mornings you didn't have it in you to try."
What makes this collection so special
- Three pieces, guaranteed to belong together: a tonal top, wide-leg trousers and the printed longline jacket — designed as one, so there is nothing to "match" and nothing to second-guess.
- The hand-designed marbled jacket: a flowing ink-and-gold print is the heart of the set. It reads as wearable art, and it flatters where you want to be flattered.
- Made kind: soft, fluid fabric and a relaxed cut that skims rather than clings — comfortable from the school run to a long lunch, in sizes AU 6 to AU 24.
- Nine colourways, one for every mood: from Olive & Gold Marble to Rust, Navy, Black & Gold, Pink, Purple, Turquoise and Yellow.
- Every set funds the Rescue Sale: proceeds go directly toward reopening the shop Jarrah and Grace built together.
The women who kept coming back
There's a shoebox kept on the workroom shelf — notes, some typed, most handwritten, from women who've written to the shop over the years. Most stay in the box. But one gets pulled out often, from a customer who bought her first set after a hard year.
"That's the whole reason we kept going as long as we did," Grace says. "Not the selling. The letters."
The shop that's fighting
After more than forty years on Chapel Street, the lease went. That's the plain truth of it — no scandal, no failing business, just a lease that came to an end and couldn't be renewed. "We never thought we'd be the ones putting the sign in the window," Jarrah says quietly. "But there we were."
Everything still on the racks that day — including these three-piece sets — went straight into storage. They never stopped wanting the shop back. Every set sold right now moves them one step closer to opening a door of their own again.
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What customers are saying
"I've never had a compliment on an outfit at 66 — now I get one every single time I wear this. The jacket is a work of art. I ordered a second in navy the same night."
Margaret, 66 — Geelong, VIC"I hate shopping and I hate deciding. This solved both. Three pieces, done, out the door. It's the most 'me' I've felt in years and I didn't have to think about it."
Susan, 61 — Adelaide, SA"The fabric is so soft and it actually skims the bits I'm shy about. I took the free second set for my sister and now we both live in them. Buy one get one free — unheard of."
Robyn, 58 — Ballarat, VIC
Where to find this collection
The three-piece sets are available now, online only, direct from Jarrah & Grace. Every set sold during the Rescue Sale goes toward reopening the shop the two of them built together. You can see the remaining colourways and check availability here.
A note, plainly: this is not throwaway fashion, and it isn't priced like it. It's a considered, hand-designed set made to be worn for years, not a season — the kind of thing you reach for again and again until it feels like your own skin. With this Rescue Sale price, you're paying well below what a single piece of this quality would normally cost, and taking a second set home free. We'd rather tell you that honestly than pretend it's disposable.
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The word is spreading
"I'm 70 and I'd stopped bothering. My granddaughter filmed me in the olive set and said 'Nan you look incredible.' I've worn it three times this week. Wish I'd found it years ago."
Patricia, 70 — Bendigo, VIC"Travels beautifully — rolled it into a carry-on, shook it out, wore it straight to dinner. Comfortable enough to sit on a plane in, smart enough to feel dressed. Genius."
Helen, 63 — Perth, WA"When I read that Jarrah and Grace were fighting to reopen their shop, I ordered straight away, and I'm so glad I did. It feels like owning something with a story in it. Beautiful, and beautifully made."
Dianne, 59 — Newcastle, NSWEvery set sold gets them closer
Jarrah and Grace aren't guaranteeing a next batch — the Rescue Sale is what funds the next step toward reopening, not the other way around. If one of these nine colourways is calling to you, it's worth checking today; the most popular ones are already thinning out.
Closing thought
"We're not letting these go because we want to," Grace says. Forty-odd years ago, she and Jarrah opened their doors on Chapel Street with nothing but a love of beautiful clothes and the women who wear them — and that dream lasted a lifetime.
This three-piece set was still on their racks the day they lost the shop. It's been in storage ever since, and every set that finds a home brings them one step closer to opening again. "Take one home," Jarrah says, "and help us turn the key in a door of our own once more."
— Kate Sorensen, for The Workroom Journal ✦