Moda

I don’t think this store is meant for non-​Polish customers. While they will sometimes serve you, they aren’t really keen on it if you are not Polish. When they do, it’s decent work but they are pretty rude.
However, I just tried taking some stuff there and they said «no, we’re full.» Who taught these people how to do business!

Rude
Not open on weekends
Terrible job sewing a hole on the seam of my cotton skirt. The fabric is all bunch where they «fixed» it. Thankfully it’s on the inside, but I could have done a better job myself. It was $ 10 to repair. Never again.

What a bunch of incapable losers with absolutely no sense of customer service who overcharge and belly ache for absolutely nothing! I brought an antique coat in there and had to have an argument with the beady-​eyed little women to do a simple job. When I was unhappy with the work and brought it back a day later they wanted to charge me double from my original quote to do a very simple task. If you don’t want to be a tailor, why are your doors open?

I had a very disturbing experience at Moda recently.
When picking up the tailored dress, they did not ask me to try it on to check the alterations. I have never had a dress altered without the tailor checking to see that the alterations are correct and the job is completed. I asked if I could and then while in the tailored dress — the seamsterss opened the curtain, unzipped the dress and folded down the front to look at the dart. So I was standing in my bra in the middle of the shop with full windows, several seamstresses and a man who is, I guess, the boss.
When I questioned the alterations — not all of them had been done — the seamstress flipped out, seriously, she went off on a tirade — I don’t know what she said for most of it, but then she switched to english and said «I don’t want to sew for these people anymore» I asked her if she was refereing to me, if I was «these people» and then she said no — she started pinning in the alterations that had not been completed during the first go around — and then she told me I had not asked for them, but the alteration in question had been her idea when I first came in with the dress — I don’t know anything about tailoring and had just asked what we could do to update the style — when I wouldn’t give in to her version of events she flipped out again and left me there with a half pinned dress talking about how she has to start taking pictures as proof.
Her meltdown could not have been a result of only my questioning the alterations, and the reference to «these people» and the need for pictures to prove her point leads me to believe that I am not the first person to question the completness of the job.
I closed the curtains, put my clothes back on and went to pay for the alterations that had been done as it seemed the job was not going to be completed by this tailor. Unfortunately, the receipt they gave me when I left the dress with them was not itemized– so the $ 55 quoted there seemed excessive for just shortening the sleeves and widening the neck — they were also supposed to put darts in the front and bring the hem up. When I gave the boss man $ 40, he said it was not the full amount. I responded that they had not done the full job. He gruffly said I should not return. I responded that I didn’t think I would.
If you are one of «these people» that likes to get the tailoring that they agreed upon — I would not go to this shop.

I took two pairs of pants in to have the inseam hemmed. One pair came out just fine, the other was way too long and not the length we had agreed on when I first went in. When I went back, they gave me a hard time and said they would hem them again but would charge me. What awful service!

I’ve taken multiple items here; from pants for alterations to jackets that needed new buttons. They do a good job, but the pricing seems arbitrary and slightly more expensive than other places.

They did an OK job turning a long sleeve blouse into a short sleeve blouse, but frankly I would have had better results asking a seamstress friend or going to a better tailor. Plus, it’s not exactly pleasant to be yelled at when you very politely inquire about the way they finished the cuff. It may indeed be impossible to have finished the cuff on the bias, but I didn’t need to be told «that I have no idea about bias cuts» since I’m not a tailor.

I have high standards when it comes to alterations & tailoring – my mom is a expert tailor, the best. I was very happy with the results from Moda (shortening the length of a blazer ad reproducing the detailed stitching – it was Yohji Yamamoto Y-​3). Good work, good rates.