Hems.Zips.Buttons.Brides.
Bring the garment in. You will be told what it needs, what can be done to it and what honestly cannot, before anything is cut.
Most jobs are ordinary ones: a hem, a zip, a button. Some are a wedding dress with six weeks to go.
A small alterations shop on West Street. Clothing alterations and repairs of every ordinary kind — and bride, bridesmaid and prom dress alterations, which are the speciality here.
The work
Fourteen kinds of job, and that is the lot of it. If yours is not on the list, ring and ask rather than guess.
Most of it is the invisible sort. A hem that hangs straight and a seam nobody notices are the whole job done right.
- 01Clothing alterations of all kinds
- 02Repairs and mending
- 03Hemming and taking up
- 04Trousers, skirts and dresses
- 05Taking in
- 06Letting out and resizing
- 07Zip repair and replacement
- 08Button replacement
- 09Patching and darning
- 10Bridal dress alterations
- 11Bridesmaid dresses
- 12Prom dresses
- 13General tailoring and adjustment
- 14Advice on what it actually needs
Bring the shoes
A hem is measured from the floor up. The shoes you will actually wear change the answer, and so does the underwear under a fitted bodice.
Fittings are done standing, because fabric settles the moment you sit down. A hem levelled in a chair is not level when you get up again.
Bridal, bridesmaid and prom dresses need more time, and usually more than one fitting. There is more fabric, more lining and more structure in them.
A bodice taken in at the side has to be checked again with everything back in place. Weeks rather than days is the sensible way to plan it.
Fittings, pinning and the machine work all happen at the shop on West Street.
Open
No appointment needed for ordinary alterations. Bring it in and it gets looked at over the counter.
Bridal and prom work is different. Ring ahead for that, so there is time set aside for the fitting.
Ring first if you are making a special trip — weekday closing can vary.
Ask about a garment
Tell us what it is and what is wrong with it. What a job costs depends on the garment and what it needs, so it is settled at the counter once it has been seen.