Alteration Shop

This has been my favorite alteration shop for years. I take clothing and even fabric bags there to be hemmed and mended and patched. They always breathe new life into my things with a smile at an affordable price, often salvaging beloved shirts, sweaters, and pants miraculously when when I feared they were beyond repair. Hemming is excellent. I have never needed anything like suit tailoring, but I can vouch wholeheartedly for everything else about this great little place.

Chau is unprofessional and a hack! I brought in 2 pairs of pants to be hemmed and altered in the backside. Initially she was friendly and showed me her «work” — the pants she was wearing and assured me she would do the same for me. I came to pick up my pants the following week. She had hemmed them, but had not tailored them. I had to leave with her another week. I came back the following week, tried on my pants, and found that the backside was gapped and uneven, not form fitting and smoothly tailored as was promised. Chau yelled at me and said that’s how it’s supposed to look, and when I disagreed she refused to fix and said that was the best she could do. She still insisted to charge me $ 90 for both pair, but after a heated exchange she knocked of $ 10. I begrudgingly paid her. Chau is fine if you want your pants hemmed, but look elsewhere for a proper professional tailor.

Chau is a amazing seamstress, I’ve been coming to her alteration shop for 5 yrs now and I can’t say I’ve had one bad experience.
I have had many pairs of pants hemmed and taken in at her shop and I have always been satisfied with her work.
Very professional.

Awesome place. Friendly service and very fair prices.
To patch 2 pairs of jeans in 5 different big torn spots and altering the length of sleeves on a shirt (including recreating the split and buttons on the end of the sleeve) they charged me $ 55 in total.
She even fixed both my belt and my jeans buttons (that came off) for free.
Seriously can’t complain about the service and price.

OK, four stars should average this out.
Friday the 13^th: I popped a shirt button. Had a client meeting in a couple of hours. Brought the shirt to Alteration Shop (luckily i was wearing a T-​shirt under it). She said come back in a half an hour. I did and she had it done. Saved my derrière!

I too really wanted to like this store because the are very nice people, but when it comes to getting to job done correctly, I was not satisfied. Being a student on a budget, getting things tailored requires a few weeks pay of savings– and I feel that I wasted my money in this store. Out of the 8 items I brought in, only two pairs of pants were fixed properly (they were minor fixes of belt loops). I would think twice about going here even with their friendly environment.

I’ve been here a few times and really wanted to like them because they are quite friendly. Unfortunately, they are not very skilled.
I brought a pair of dress pants in once for hemming. The finished job was so uneven leg longer than the other) they agreed to redo it.
Another time, I brought in a blazer to shorten the sleeves. The sleeves had functioning buttons on the cuffs, so I knew that it would have to be shortened from the shoulder end. They said it couldn’t be done and that I should return the blazer! I took it to my other tailor in San Francisco instead, and they did the job very well.

I’ve used this place a lot and would recommend. I’ve had a lot of pants hemmed here; they do a good job, but it’s a little pricey — $ 15 for a regular hem, $ 18 for lined pants. I’ve also had them do more complicated stuff like add or change a waistband on a skirt. They always do good work. One thing they aren’t good at is advising you on your clothes, like what length your pants should be hemmed to, or how to make something more updated or fit better. But if you know what you want and don’t mind paying for it, this is a great place. Note that they don’t have good hours — Saturday is the only time to go if you have a regular job.

They have great prices but my experience with them as been mixed.
It’s close to work so I checked it out and they’ve done a great job with the dress pants and jeans I’ve dropped off. Dress shirts however are another story. My shirts always seem to come out with the wrong fit, either too loose or oddly flaring out at the bottom, even after they’ve «corrected» it. The stitching and work quality seems fine, even exceptional but they don’t always have the work done when it’s promised.

I took a bunch of pants in to get them hemmed here. The seamstress matched the thread to the current stitching exactly. I was very happy with all of the work they did.