You were never going to get it back. That’s a lot of alterations to a loan item. You’d have hounded her for it for months and eventually you’d have heard “well it’s already altered for me, so it makes more sense for me to keep it.” You should make it wearable for different bodies? Um. No. You aren’t making them for loan. And even if you were something like gold key for the SCA, that’s still not how you’d do it. The more bodies it’s made for, the fewer people it actually fits. My good historical stuff NEVER gets loaned out, much less my cloaks. The only stuff I’m willing to loan is the old stuff i don’t wear any more.