Nam the Tailor

He was very friendly and was fast! I needed my prom dress hemmed and when it was finished, it was perfect. Reasonably priced too for the fragile material it is. I don’t know the hours to this place so I had to call and ask. Maybe he should post it on here? But yeah pretty good place I’d return to when I need his help.

Nam has moved! He is now at 84 Franklin St., Quincy. Nam is a master tailor and his work is always high quality and reasonably priced.

My boyfriend took his suite here. They charged him $ 119 for a full tailoring, which was definitely steep, but the fit was good. The suite was supposed to be done on Thursday and we came to pick it up on Friday morning and it was not done. He finished it within the hour though.

I came in on a Saturday at 11am needed an alteration on a suit jacket to be picked up the following Tuesday. Nam originally said Thursday, but since my interview was Wednesday, he gladly oblidged. I really appreciated that. There truly is nothing like a tailored suit, and Nam is extremely skilled. The suit was barely recognizable and fit beautifully. As a side note, the guy is a perfect gentleman. Will be back.

He was very fast, nice and reasonably priced. I brought my chestnut colored leather jacket to him to replace the broken zipper and he matched up the thread and zipper exactly. It looked brand new when he was done.

My boy Nam is the best! Super friendly good guy. Brought in two pairs of jeans to be hemmed and he did a perfect job! Highly recommended with good prices!

Nam is super good！ I was in a hurry to get the new suit cut down. I arrived quite late. Nam worked until 9pm to get everything down. The cut is very good and Nam is so so kind that he took me to the subway station after everything is Ok. Thank you Nam！

I cannot say enough about the amazing job that Nam did on 6 pairs of pants I brought in. The stitch work is absolutely amazing, you would never even be able to tell these pants were hemmed. I will admit that the language barrier was a little tough, but we managed and it in no way hindered my decision to go back. Price seems about average for the area as well– $ 14 a pair for hemming.

I love this place. I am always met with a smile when I walk in, everything is done when it is supposed to be, and the work is always great. I will only get my hems done here.

In 2005, Nam took in my sister’s wedding top that had intricate beading.
In 2013, Nam took in my dress that also had an intricate folded design and small flower appliques.
Both times, his work came out great. His craftsmanship is beautiful, truly. I could not see where the work was done. The only issue was not placing the hook on my train in a more desirable and easy-​to-​locate spot. My advice is to just be clear about how you want it done as I was not.
It is pricey, but worth it! Bring your trickier jobs here!

I hate to leave a bad review for Nam bacuse he is a decently friendly guy.
I brought in a suit to have tailored for a wedding I was going to be in. I thought the jacket was fine and I just needed the pants done. He convinced me to tighten the jacket a bit as well (which I don’t feel was necessary, next time I won’t). I thought the prices were quite high to have pants hemmed and jacket sured up ($ 89!) but trusted it would be done awesome.
I went to pick it up. Pants were perfect but the jacket… no so much! He tightened up the jacket but neglected to tell me there would be extra fabric up by the neck causing an obvious bump! It looks awful. He obviuosly knew this would happen since hes a tailor, and wanted to charge me $ 45 more to fix it on top of the $ 89 I already paid him! I tried to discuss the issue with him that the bump wasnt there until he convinced me to do the jacket and I needed it ASAP but the language barrier prevented me from this, so I left in frustration with a bump in my suit jacket for the wedding.
His prices are pretty high, and he will convince you to do things that aren’t necessary. I was not happy and won’t return here.

I moved to Quincy recently and needed a tailor so I found Nam on Unilocal because of all the wonderful reviews. What a pro he is! I took a sweater to get shortened and jacket with sleeves that were too long and he did such beautiful work! I’m a perfectionist, and I couldn’t find a single fault in anything he did. The seams are perfectly hidden and it looks as if I had bought them that way. I’ll never take anything anywhere else. He’s such a sweet guy and his prices are perfectly reasonable. He’s very skilled and experienced, and you’ll be happy you came here!

I only discovered Nam about 6 months ago, but I am very glad I did. I have had three suits tailored here, one of which I had already taken to someone else, who did a terrible job with it. I have a thin, athletic build, and off-​the-​rack suits are always too big on me. Nam does an amazing job, and knows exactly where and how to provide an impeccable fit. He worked for years as a tailor at Armani, before opening his shop in Quincy, and it shows in his work. He has a great attention to detail, possesses a wealth of knowledge about styles and fabrics, and knows exactly how to fit a suit to a particular kind of body type. Do you pay more here? I don’t think so. I’ve used a lot of other tailors in my life, and I would say that Nam’s prices are commensurate with the quality of his work. He’s less expensive than someone on Newbury St, but maybe a little more than most of the shitty tailors who set up shop in the suburbs. In this case, I feel I get more than what I pay for. Also, he shakes your hand on the way out. The dude is a fucking old-​school gentleman.
Everybody should have a great tailor. I would drive a hundred miles to have this guy work on my suits.

I feel terrible leaving such a poor review. Nam is a very friendly person, and I cannot say anything about his quality. All I know is that I went into his shop yesterday to have him hem two pairs of pants and bring in a jacket.
I feel even worse saying this, but I honestly felt confused the entire time. I tried to communicate with him what I was looking to do, but there is a huge language barrier. He started measuring me all over the place, which I thought was fantastic, and then started pinning the jacket in several areas. I am impressed by his eye, but I was going for a different fit than he was and could not seem to communicate that.
I could have sworn he told me taking in the seam in the seat was $ 1. I was surprised and said «$ 1? That doesn’t sound right.» He said nothing. After the estimate was created, it was $ 18. Everything with the jacket was very expensive, which I don’t think is his fault– but had I known, we could have started the conversation on what I was looking for and how much I was willing to pay.
I even tried calling him an hour after leaving and he didn’t understand me at all. He said twice that they do the work in the shop. Which had nothing to do with what I was asking. I think a patron needs to be very patient and intentional when speaking to Nam. He was a real sweet guy, but it was a far from pleasurable experience.

Took 4 pairs of pants to get hemmed.
Nam did a great job. He is super friendly and you can’t beat the price. I was used to paying $ 20-​$ 25 to get my pants hemmed in Boston. But with Nam, it was $ 14 for each pair and he had thread that matched the exact color on my jeans (bright orange/​red and a bright green)
Only downside, he took about 1.5 week to get them done. Not that I was in a rush to get back them but most tailors would have had this done in a few days. Of course, I could have probably told him I needed them sooner and see if he would adjust.
But I will definitely be taking my clothes here. Fitted clothing really does make a difference.

Best Tailor EVER!!! Nam (and his wife) took an impossibly ill-​fitting bridesmaid dress and perfected it to fit me. They had to take it in about five inches (around the zipper) and shorten it about seven inches. They also fixed the zipper on my long quilted winter coat seamlessly. It’s like a brand new coat! But, the kicker is: Nam’s wife had a baby one month premature and the store was closed. I needed my dress ASAP to be able to board my flight to the wedding that I am in. I called and left a message, within 15 minutes, Nam was there in the store. Great service and a great family!

Nam is so friendly and courteous and he pulled off a miracle for me. I have a winter coat by Laundry by Shelli Segal. It’s my favorite winter coat because it’s stylish yet keeps me super warm. It’s a very unique deep green color. I got so many compliments on it and am so happy I found it. However, I got a scarf stuck in my zipper. I had to rip it out and lost some of the teeth of the zipper — rendering it useless. I love this coat and didn’t want to throw it out because of that. So, I brought it to Nam and he found a zipper that matched the EXACT color of the coat. I was so amazed. Cost me $ 40 which is so much cheaper than having to replace my coat.

The only place that I would go to to get any of my clothes tailored of fixed.
They were very friendly and patience, both him an his wife.
I came in with 2 jeans that need to be fixed. He told me that it would take up to a week or more to finished because he has a lot more work that need to be done for people that came in before me. I told him that I need these jeans asap. So he told me to come back in 4 days, which I did and and the jeans were finished. They came out great, maybe even better than I first bought it.
Overall, I would definitely come back here again.

i had a problem. long story short, there’s going to be this thing on a far-​flung beach for which there really are no hard and fast sartorial rules but it’s an event nonetheless. i had originally figured on some regular linen pants and a nice shirt, both of which i had in spades, but later decided i would look pretty stupid if i wasn’t in a suit, and i went hunting.
have you ever tried to find a white linen suit after stores have brought out their fall lineups? i mean, they’re selling f***ing sweaters at filene’s basement. it’s still running into the 80’s, but if you need a wool topcoat. … nevertheless, thanks to the internet, i found my white whale and it was kind of a steal.
it needed to be tailored, and here is where my problem arose. naturally, i took the suit to jack’s. unfortunately, as soon as i walked in, he told me he’d be on vacation for 3 weeks. good for him. bad for me.
i had read about nam the tailor on Unilocal and had him in the back of my mind since he is in the ‘hood. so, i headed back to the q and i’m very happy i did. nam has a very different approach to tailoring than jack, but he is no less thorough and no less skilled.
i’ve always been tough to tailor and it appears i’m even more so since dropping 10 pounds or so in the last several months. even an athletically cut suit was too full around the midsection. it didn’t look terrible, but it didn’t look great. nam carefully explained what he was going for and why as he pinned up the jacket and demonstrated how he’d create the final product by basically taking the entire jacket apart and reassembling it.
suffice it to say, i’m extremely happy with the final product. the suit looks like it was made for me.
nam’s pricing reflects both his skill and the amount on work he puts in to each piece. tailoring the suit ran $ 116.00 but was worth every cent. his turn-​around-​time of 1 week was excellent.
nam’s is closed on wednesdays and sundays, but otherwise his hours are very good (typically open to 6 or later) and his shop is a 5 or 10 minute walk from the quincy center t. based on the walls lined with fabrics and all the sample books laying around, i’m going to go out on a limb and say nam will happily make you a bespoke suit or shirt. until that day. …

I love my suit and the only person in Quincy, I trust is Nam. I got my pants and suit adjusted here. His work is amazing. You can tell he is trusted because there is always 10 – 15 suits hanging on his wall. He will stop whatever he is doing to help you. Nice man.
I’m not sure what’s the average prices for adjusting pants and a suit. It was $ 85 to have my suit fitted and I believe it was $ 30 – 40 for my pants. A little on the expensive side for a recent college grad but I’ll look good at job interviews.