Magic Alterations & Tailoring

I can’t say enough good things about this woman at Magic Alterations. She’s very fair, does good work, and always delivers on time. She’s hemmed numerous slacks & jeans, altered a number of dresses, and has made 2 dresses for me. I’m always picking something up from her and recommend her highly!

Clean and spacious, ample parking, great service. I brought 8 pairs of jeans for hemming and slimming — all done within a week and prices were very reasonable. I don’t live in the neighborhood, but this place is worth the drive (and traffic down Geary). Definitely making this my go to place for all types of alterations in the future.

Decent alterations done for a decent price. Would I bring an expensive bridesmaid dress or anything like that? No. Would I bring pants to be hemmed and minor alterations again? Probably.
I picked this place out of convenience and had two work pants hemmed and a dress altered that needed to be taken in a little. The pants were fine and she was working on my dress as I walked in to pick everything up. She didn’t have me try it on when it was done which I thought was strange. The dress alterations were ok, there’s a slight bump by the zipper but I’ll get by with it. She definitely doesn’t speak English so she didn’t know what I was saying when talking about the dress. Ok place but maybe not for expensive alterations.

Honest woman. Brought in many of my multi-​pockets jackets for sewing repair. Everytime I am satisfied. Reasonable price and turnover. Will continue to patronize her good work!

I’ve been here twice. The lady who works here doesn’t speak much English, but enough to understand.
The first time, I brought in two dresses. One dress needed to have a much shorter hem and the second needed to be taken in the waist. The seamstress did a great job on both. She even saved the scrap fabric to see if I wanted them (I did!).
The second time I’ve been here, I brought in a complicated dress with shoulders too big and the zipper too long. Basically, she told me to get another dress because it would have been too expensive to take it apart, trim the zipper, and resew it all to fit me.
Maybe it’s because I looked like a broke student, but I appreciated her honesty and not trying to rip me off. I asked how much it would be but she insisted it was not worth paying $$$ for a dress that I got off a sale rack. Oh well. Maybe I’ll learn how to alter that dress.

They have shortened the sleeves on several of my suit jackets for me, which is a complicated procedure. Each time, I have been satisfied.

Pretty lousy alteration on a dress I brought in. I had to take it somewhere else to fix it. Also $ 40 basically to hem and take in the waist and its cash only! Seriously, I have to pay taxes so I hope the businesses I give my money to would do the same! Also, she needed over a week to do almost nothing.

Worst freaking place ever they Destroyed my dress that cost me alot of money. She should not be doing this for a living!!! Will never ever come back to this place. She don’t understand English I call and her daughter has to translate for her, daughter has a major major attitude

This place is amazing. I needed to have a dress altered for a trip and I made a really stupid mistake of telling them the wrong date for pickup. When I came to pick up the dress (the day I was leaving for my trip) it was not ready because the date I mistakenly gave them was 2 weeks away (what was I thinking!!!) The woman said she could have it done in a hour so I could still take it on my trip. REALLLY!!! OMG THANK YOU!!! I felt so bad about the rush but she was so accommodating and nice about it! I will forever be going to this place now, but will make sure I give them the correct dates so this does not happen again. Even if it does, I know I can trust them for excellent service!

nice ppl. and they did the job perfectly !

I had an interview last Tuesday, and I got my two blazers in to them on Saturday near closing time and they still got it to me on time. I am a slim guy with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, so if I buy the X-​Smalls with the European designers they fit too tight on the chest, but perfectly on the waist. As a result, I buy the blazers in the next size up, had a boxy ill fit on the waist, but fortunately, these lovely ladies are so good at what they do that the blazers are now perfectly costumed to my body type. They were a little pricey, charging me $ 100 for both pieces, but to be quite honest, their work was well worth it to me and I would come back to them again.

Needed a button sewed onto my jacket on a Sunday. They were opened, friendly, quick with good quality and cheap. So cheap, I paid them more to ease my conscience. Try them.

I had a silk chiffon dress that was for a person several inches taller than I am. Now I have a silk chiffon dress that is for someone my height! It cost $ 20, which I think is pretty good considering how difficult silk chiffon is to work with and considering that I’d have ruined the dress just thinking about altering it myself. The woman who worked with me was very sweet and knew what I wanted just by looking at the dress on me – I didn’t have to say a word. Perfect!

This is a review solely on their hemming of pants.
I came here because the reviews on here seemed legit. I walked in and was greeted by two nice ladies that were willing to help with my questions. I asked how much for hemming jeans, 10 bucks. AWESOME! I proceeded.
I then explained how I am looking for a consistent alterations place as my last one did me absolutely no justice (see my reviews). The ladies laughed politely and said we will do our best then asked if the following wednesday would work. I kindly asked if it could be done by the sunday (I brought them in on Wednesday) and she said absolutely!
I come back to retrieve my items and am SO SATISFIED with the work they did. Truly happy I found this gem and will be using them more and more.

They did a great job with my work coat, sleeves were too long and she even took in the sides to make it not so bulky. Very nice and cash only.

Brought in a dress to get adjusted a week and a half ahead of the date I needed it on. On the day they’ve told me to come pick it up, I came and… they haven’t even gotten started on my dress.
A phone call to tell me that would’ve been appreciated. A finished alteration would’ve been even better. Thankfully there are other tailors in the neighborhood.

Fast, friendly, and great quality work

I just picked up 5 nice shirts that I wanted to bring in a few inches. They were helpful and patient with me, which was nice, since I’ve never had any clothes tailored before.
Of the 5 shirts, 4 came out terrific and one probably needs a somewhat unrelated alteration too (we brought in the waist, but after doing that it looks like we should shorten the tail). I don’t feel as though that is their fault, so I’ll happily be bringing that one in soon.
They asked how soon I needed them, and I said not very, but was a little surprised when they said it’d be 10 days. Overall, great service and I will be going back to tailor most shirts I buy.

I brought in some extra long scrub pants for hem alterations around 11am. My pants were completed within the same day.
They did a great job even though my request was pretty simple. I spent a total of $ 12.
The sweetest customer service ever.
Also, they offer 20% off on clothing alterations for birthdays. Yay!