Alla Tailoring

I needed to get a dress altered for a friend’s wedding. I brought it here and she got it back to me in just a few days and did a great job. I would definitely recommend going here. I think the price was very reasonable as well.

Overall, Alla did a great job. I had asked her to create a cotton lining in my dress pants. most materials such as polyester cause me irritation. She completed five pants. the work was completed on time and her price was reasonable. she found a very nice lining that was pretty thin. I would highly recommend her. I am happy that I worked with her and will certainly go back again. I had originally planned on working with another tailor down the street. he told me he would not recommend doing the lining.

I brought in a length of fabric that one of our children bought in Africa and asked Kathy to make a tablecloth from it. It was beautiful! I’d asked her to do a French seam (one of our children knew about this stuff) and she did it extremely neatly, with an extra but subtle seam for greater strength. The project was done in three days, over the New Year’s holiday, and the price was exceptionally modest.

She did quick work and was very pleasant. The work was done very well and looks great. I am impressed with her turnaround and the look of her work.

I came in with a dress that I need to have taken out quite a bit. She had no problem doing the job and had it ready for me within 24 hours. She is a fabulous seamstress who doesn’t stress out no matter what the job is. This is a hidden gem in the Newton area, I highly recommend this shop.

Alla is a great seamstress. She has a 1 – 2 day turn around. She hemmed a few pairs of jeans for me, I always asked to have the original hem sewn and she explained when it is necessary and when not to sew an original hem and I have saved money because of this. She also altered 2 other items that fit as if custom made! She is friendly, her shop is clean and bright with a large fitting room.

I was looking for an experience tailor for a long time and finally I found the right one ! I came to Alla to resize my expensive leather coat. She did a great job on it: professionally, accurately and quickly. After a while I ask her to have my pants done and she did exactly what I wanted. I strongly recommend Alla and I can trust her without any worries about my clothes !

I’ve been a loyal customer of Alla since 2009. Since then she has professionally altered a number of dresses for me, mom and my girlfriends. Most of these dresses required quite a bit of work, and as a result, Alla always made us very happy. It’s hard to find a good tailor these days and as I was was preparing for my wedding, I needed someone who I could rely on, and at the same time not spend a fortune. As a bride to be, I kept changing my mind about different types of alterations that I wanted. Any other seamstress would have given up on me a long time ago, yet Alla was extremely patient and made me look like a princess on the big day. Everyone kept asking whether the dress was a designer made and custom fitted for me. I felt truly amazing in it! I’m really happy that I found Alla’s shop, I highly recommend her work!

She saved my beautiful black cocktail dress that another tailor almost destroyed. The dress was a jersey material that had a beautiful flow to the hem. She did an unbelievable job taking out the hem mess, cutting the dress as little as possible and making it look beautiful again. She took photos of the the steps she had to take to make my dress wearable. She did it in the timetable she established and was very reasonable. I have returned to have jeans shorten and she did and excellent job, using the original hems.

I wanted to have my jeans shortened — i brought them in on Wednesday and they were suppose to be ready by Saturday. When i showed up in the morning as agreed, she said she hasn’t had the time yet. I am fine with that, but there are a bunch of tailors on that street and if she had told me earlier that she was busy, i would have taken them somewhere else. Very unprofessional!

I started going to this tailor about a year ago. She’s a miracle worker when it comes to dress zippers, and she was pretty good at getting the job done promptly (for the most part… there were definitely times i would come in on the day she asked me to pick up my clothes and she hadn’t even started). she was always reasonably priced, too.
then, on ⁹⁄₂₆ this year I went in and showed her all my ripped jeans. I wasn’t sure they were salvageable, but she said she could definitely make them look like they were never damaged. i kept going in, i must have gone in about 4 or 5 times because every time she’d say «no, come next week, i haven’t started them yet.» then, finally, the last time i went in she said «I’ll call you.» well, it has been over a month (about a month and two weeks), and I called her a few days ago. she said «I haven’t started, I’ll call you.» I thought this was ridiculous so I asked her to give me a date on when to pick them up. Winter was coming (first snowfall [blizzard, actually] was last night, and she was well aware months ago that I had only one pair of jeans left to wear), so she said okay in a few days. I called her again, after my last pair of wearable jeans broke, and asked for an estimated price for my jeans. She didn’t call me back, she never has. Turns out, I could pick them up today. So I did. The price came out to be $ 108, and all of my jeans have patches in them that just don’t match. The time I waited was enough, and honestly I could have maybe dealt with the price… had the jeans turned out to be what she said they would be.
I was pretty upset because I really can’t afford to buy new jeans, which I have to do now. I was also upset because she had always been so reliable in the beginning, then slowly over time as she got to know me as a frequent customer, the prices rose and the time to get repairs increased markedly.

I had a last minute hem job on an expensive, black classic long dress with a sweeping hemline and built in liner/​slip which also needed hemming. I can hem but this dress was just too nice and I needed it professionally done in a hurry. I called Kathy’s Tailor shop – who turned out to be Alba (she’s owned the shop a few years but did not change the name) after finding her on Unilocal.I was worried about her only having one review from 2007 but pretty desperate. When I met her, she told me she used to have more reviews and when I went back online later, indeed I did find some after being prompted to type in some code. Strange – I’ve been using Unilocal a long time and never encountered that before.
Anyway, she said to get it to her asap, which I did by 3pm on a Thursday. I asked to have it by 3pm Friday and when I went to pick it up the next day it was ready and perfectly done. I thought the price was reasonable though I don’t use tailors much.
Alba was busy but she went the extra mile for me, getting it done on time at a price I could afford. Thanks Alba!

This tiny little one-​woman shop is great. Kathy’s alterations are quick, reliable and affordable.