Anthony the Tailor

Rip off price. To fix the zipper on my jeans would cost $ 40? Well, the cleaning place down fair oaks will charge me for $ 15. lol No thanks, Anthony.

I had to find a tailor to do a last minute hem on a pair of suit pants. Anthony did a beautiful job! The pants were altered by hand and he got it done the same afternoon.

So I fly into town and realize that I lost weight and have three days to get my suit tailored before a wedding. Who do I trust with my bespoke suits? MR. ANTHONY that’s who!!! Now don’t come to Anthony to fix your clothes and think it’s going to be cheap. Mr. Anthony is a master of his craft and clothes are his canvass and there is no one better than him in the area.
Every time he fixes one of my suits I take them back to my tailor in NOLA and they are given a lesson on how to tailor a suit. This time a round it required Mr. Anthony to recut my pants and coat and what took my tailor five weeks to make, only took him two days to fix. $ 600 later I was walking in a suit that felt like a second skin and made me feel like a million bucks.
One day I am going to convince the old man to make me a suit but it’s probably going to take 10G’s and a recession to give him the time to do it. Hands down Mr. Anthony is the the guy to go to when you want it done right.
If you feel like this is unreasonable or absurd to pay for alterations. Then go to Men’s Warehouse and buy one off the rack, no one will judge you for it…

Excellent and very fast work. He’s expensive but worth it (as anyone who has dealt with sloppy tailoring knows). Highly recommended.

Anthony is the true craftsman. I can trust him with my most favorite clothes and be sure whatever he does will be done perfectly.
It’s not cheap, but it is fair.

If you read the reviews, they are all on the mark. Tony is expensive. But the work is impeccable. I grew up having my clothes tailored. Over the years, it has been more and more difficult to find a tailor that you can trust to do a great job, and to take care in their work. Most of the time, it’s simply about getting the job done quickly, but not perfectly. Tony is a perfectionist. If you have a piece that has value to you — financially or emotionally, don’t spend less to have it tailored poorly — take it to Tony.

Fantastic quality. Very pleased with a suit that needed some alterations. Anthony was very quick and he did a great job. Highly recommended.

Yes, Anthony the tailor is expense, this is true. However — by my estimation, absolutely worth it. He took a 1940’s boxy cut wool plaid dinner jacket, something I had only used for Halloween dress up (since I was 15) and transformed it into a sports coat I can wear to my billion dollar client’s HQ. I have always loved this jacket but it was just too out dated in the style of the cut to use for any serious purpose. So he is an expert for certain. He also hemmed and adjusted 2 pairs of dress pants. I use all of these now for work. What I paid for this tailoring work was worth every penny, particularly in regards to the sports coat — it is absolutely irreplaceable and unlike anything that is being made, currently, for semi-​formal functions.

Anthony’s work is of fantastic quality. I’ve had him alter three suits (two for me, one for my fiancé) as well as a variety of slacks, blouses, and dresses. You would never be able to tell the clothing has been altered except that it now looks like custom-​made clothes. He completely rebuilt a $ 200 sale rack suit in to something that I could have paid $ 1k for at Nordstrom. He also worked magic on an intricately folded women’s silk blouse that I didn’t expect a tailor to do well with.
As other reviews mention, his prices are not cheap and depend on what you ask him to do. Moderate alterations to a two-​piece suit seem to run about $ 200, and a major suit rebuild is more like $ 300, so this isn’t service for your H&M clothing. However, if you have investment clothing that you want altered, Anthony is your man.

I went in to see about tailoring two brand new suits. After reading the reviews here, I was warned that Anthony is expensive. Once entering his little shop, before measuring or anything, I asked broadly how much it would be to hem the pants, bring out the waist an inch, and hem the coat sleeves. He said basically said «well, let’s see» and directed me to try on the clothes. After trying on both suits and Anthony pinning and chalking the clothes, only then he provided his cost.
When people here say Anthony is expensive, they were not joking. The quoted cost was ~$ 225 PER SUIT, and that was Anthony giving a «discount» based on my shocked look on my face when he quoted an original price of $ 230 PER SUIT.
Judging from how he was describing his work, I felt comfortable in knowing his business. He has certainly been doing this for many years seeing where his shop is located and how it looks.
However, I could not justify the price and decided not to have him do any of the work.
My rating is because Anthony could have given a ball park of his pricing before he wasted both of our time. He came across very defensive and a bit angry after I expressed concern over the pricing, a sales tactic that I did not fall for (I’d like to think I’m a nice and reasonable person and willing to pay a bit more for local businesses and quality). His shop is little, the one «dressing room» could have been cleaner and more comfortable given clients need to change clothes. He had clothes and materials all over the back tables and I felt concerned that my new suits would just be laying on tables rather than treated nicely by being hung.
Anthony has a great story, an immigrant from Lebanon and survived the civil war over there that went on for years. He’s a self made man and has run a successful business in the sleepy street of Mission in South Pasadena. I would have loved to support his business but the price was very expensive, about ¹⁄₃ the price of each of my suits, which didn’t make sense for me to do.
If price isn’t an issue for you, Anthony’s the Tailor may be a good option for you. However, if you’re looking for a reasonable priced tailor, this isn’t one for you.

This man refused to alter my two identical dresses. What?! I’m still bewildered. I don’t know if he just couldn’t do it, or he is a Divo. (These dresses were for a job and 13 other lady colleagues were getting these same dresses altered across the US.) I scooped up my stuff and walked out. As I walked back to my car still in the dress he refused to alter with the clothes I had come in with in my arms, I asked a neighboring shop keeper if they knew of a good tailor nearby that was not this guy. Sure enough they had a great recommendation down the street on Mission in San Marino, near Mission and Garfield. Nancy at the Cleaners at Mission and Euclid. I didn’t see her on Unilocal.
She had no problem altering my dresses. I recommend her. She is very thorough and comes up with great solutions on the spot! Like a bra strap ancor on a boat neck design! How awesome that the dress was taken in from the arm to the knees on both side seems, the built in bra had to be taken in, and she put in the ancors for only $ 50 per dress!!! Now remember that’s Nancy, down the street, NOT Anthony. Anthony refused to even try.

Let’s get this out of the way, he’s not cheap. However, his work is well worth the price.
I took in a designer tuxedo jacket to alter. I had Anthony shorten the sleeves and taken in at the waist. The seams at the back of the jacket was quite intricate, and Anthony did a great job.
I highly recommend him if you have pricey clothes that need to be altered. If you just need your trousers shorten, just take them to your cleaner.

There are very few people who can tailor fine garments today. I have a very fine, very expensive cashmere overcoat that I received as a gift. I never wore it because the sleeves were too long. It was a treasure sitting in my closet waiting to be appreciated. I have an expensive leather jacket that I wear often but again, sleeves were a bit long and I always wanted it fixed. Anthony rebuilt the cashmere coat: it has a lining and buttons that needed to be re-​attached — it needed a skilled tailor. The leather jacket has cuffs that needed to be removed and re-​attached. Leather is hard to work with. Anthony altered these coats as though they had been made to fit and never altered in any way. This kind of work is not cheap, but it’s relative. Why would I turn over nearly $ 2000 in garments to someone who might ruin them or, at best, make them look cheap? If you want a pair of jeans taken up, take them to your cleaners. If you have a suit, a gown, or any other valuable garments, you can trust Anthony with them. He turned them around quickly for me as well. Great guy and he’s been in South Pasadena for decades.

He is expensive. That said, he is one of the last of a dying breed. A true tailor in the classic sense as in, he learned his craft by apprenticing for years under a master tailor.
He is definitely worth every penny for important items. I had him tailor the suit I was married in. Amazing work. Later I took things to be altered and made the mistake of not asking prior how much it would be.
I’ve had him alter several suits and his work is impeccable.
For simple alterations, take it somewhere else or, at least negotiate price up front (he has been flexible when I asked first).
For nice suits and clothes however, I doubt a better tailor can be found in this area.