American Duchess Apparel - Lauren Reeser Seamstress broke legal written agreement and has not returned our money or belongings. Sparks Nevada

On the phone, the woman at first immediately denied that the collar was attached incorrectly. Failing that, she launched into a screaming tirade, becoming abusive, and attacking me personally. My husband was on the extension and heard every word of the conversation. He managed to record it all on the answering machine tape. She refused to listen to anything we had to say, kept flinging accusations that were utter fabrications, and then refused to listen to us and hung up. Prior to this, we had a written contract with her to make a garment by a certain date, for an important event. She committed to this, and accepted money from us. After the phone call, we received an email from her stating she would not make the agreed upon garment, and would return our money, our fabric, and several other of our possessions that we had provided to her specifically to use in the making of said garment. She also said "do not reply to my email". My husband did indeed reply, reiterating that she had now broken a legal contract, and was extremely immature and unprofessional as well as unethical. It was now barely 2 months before our event, and we had no garment being made. In the email he formally requested the immediate return of our money and belongings so that we could try to find a reputable seamstress who might be able to make our needed garment in time. We also sent a letter, by certified mail stating all of this. We have NOT received  our money or our belongings back. We had an appointment set with a reliable seamstress and had to miss the meeting because this woman has not returned our fabric, money, etc. In addition to all of this, we received another garment that she had made for us TWO WEEKS AFTER it was originally promised, and only days before it was needed. The buttons came apart when I tried to try the garment on. Although we understand that she did not deliberately use faulty buttons, because she sent the garment so late we were forced to drive over 2 hours, buy buttons, cover them ourselves, and sew them all on in order to have our garment for the needed event. All of this could have been avoided if she had sent it in the middle of August as she said she would on July 30. Her recent actions are so grossly unprofessional and unethical. If someone had contracted with her to make a wedding dress and she had done this to them, they would be in a real mess, with no one to craft a gown in short order. Our event is as important to us, and she has done the same thing. We have her emails committing to the 18thc. jacket project, proof of monies we sent her, her email breaking the contract, before and after photos of the collar we had to have put on correctly at our expense by someone else, a tape of her hysterical and abusive phone 'conversation', photos of the jacket with faulty buttons, and proof of the the day it was delivered. We also have someone who heard the conversation on July 30th when she said we would have the first jacket by the 'middle of August'. All of this is now being sent to our attorney, and she will have to deal with him, if we do not receive our money and ALL or our belongings  back in perfect condition in a few days, when our new appointment with the new seamstress is scheduled.