Tailors

Don’t go here if you value your sanity.
I took my wedding dress in to be adjusted. In fact I took in two versions of the dress, one slightly too big and one too small, and asked their advice. The smaller one almost fit, but was too tight across the chest. There wasn’t much fabric at the seams to let it out, but they said they’d adjust the zip to give more room.
Which they did — and it looked great, till I turned round and realised the neckline at the back was now weirdly loose. No problem, I thought — I’ll go back and see what they can do.
Well… my god. The seamstress came out and started shouting at me. ‘I did what you want — and now you’re complaining!‘
Well, actually, no, you did what you recommended, and it didn’t work too well and now I’m trying to find a way to fix it.
But no, she just went on and on about what did I expect, what did I want, «I can put it back how it was? Is that what you want? Is it?» She was just unbelievably rude…
Eventually she pinned it to lift the shoulders, ranting all the time, while I bit my tongue as best I could — I needed the dress fixed! Then the nicer ladies behind the counter told me to come back on Saturday. Which I did. Only to have crazy lady come dashing across.
«Monday! I said Monday!» And waving a slip of paper. She had taken her carbon copy of my receipt and written ‘Monday’ on it … I didn’t even really mind waiting but the insanity of it all just about had me in tears. I ended up shouting, saying that I could not talk to her, I would only talk to the others. but she just wouldn’t go away.
I could not go back there. Ever. I had to get my sister to go and pick up the dress on the Monday because I was just going to break down weeping if that lady started attacking me again. Thankfully, the seamstress was out when my sister went and she managed to deal with someone reasonable and fair — I’d have felt bad sending her to deal with someone so difficult.
The dress now fits fine, thank goodness, and I’m trying to get back to liking it and to forget about the drama. Still — it needs to be washed before I can wear it, due to grubby finger prints all over the shoulders when I got it home!
So, seriously, just don’t go there…

Brilliant. Recommended by Jane Davidson and ALC for alterations then I had to head here to get two pairs of jeans shortened.
They can do alterations (eg. like shortening jeans) within the hour so there are some changing rooms for you to pop your clothes on, get stuff pinned and then adjusted.
I put two pairs of jeans in — pro-​tip is to ask for your jeans to be done original style as this then makes the jeans look like they’ve never been altered. I popped them in at 10am and was back after a pot of tea at Eteaket to collect them. All done and ready to wear.
They also do dry cleaning. Prices not much different to a local place I had used in the past — local was £8, here £10.50 and I didn’t get original at the local. I’ll definitely use again :-)

Up a few steps then your in sort of place. Tailors is central and I assume run by two or three women — they always seem to be there when I’m in; not sure if they are sisters, but they give off that vibe like they’ve been running this business for years they are also pretty vocal and like to share thoughts and ideas.
A constantly busy place, brides in getting alterations done to dresses, peeps handing in or collecting trousers (what I was doing), fitting rooms to the left, working area to right of the reception with sewing machines buzzing.
In all an ok service, maybe not as cheap as supermarkets to get your garments dry cleaned, but at least they most defo won’t come back to you in a worse state like it might with a bigger chain, I’ve heard this can happen!
Trousers cleaned within 3 working days, but just make sure you keep your ticket, or goodness knows what items you or the brides might end up with?!

Tailors is an excellent small business providing alterations to the public and also many of the high end clothes shops around the town centre which is how we originally found them.
Work is of an exceptionally high quality and reasonably priced. It’s cheap enough that if you find the perfect clothes in TK Maxx or similar but only in a couple of sizes too large, you can take it here and have it altered still for far less than the equivalent price. My partner and I have had a number of suits altered like that.
They also offer drycleaning, which whilst more expensive than the service from supermarkets or drycleaning chains has been the only place not to damage any of our clothes.
I’d highly reccomend the service you get here from the friendly staff