I have been going to this Tailor since we moved into the area four years ago. Although the tailor and the woman who works there with him are very polite and turn the work around quickly, the past few times that I have gone, I have not been pleased at all. I brought a dress to be hemmed and he charged me $20 which seemed like a fair and normal price. I bought the same dress in a different color. I brought it to him and this time he wanted $40. When I questioned him about it, and reminded him that I had just been there with the same dress in a different color, he reduced the price to $20. I never thought that I would have to question a price at a local business. There is no price menu posted in his store.
The final straw for me was when I brought my daughter's prom dress to him this week. It is a very simple dress without a lining. It just needed to be shortened 1 1/2 inches. He quoted me a price of $60. This seemed a little steep considering that this dress doesn't have any pleats, complicated fabric, or an abundance of fabric. But, it is a prom dress, so I figured this is what they are charging for hems for prom dresses.
When my daughter picked the dress up and brought it home, I opened it up to look at it and I was shocked. All he did was cut off the bottom with a pair of scissors. The fabric wasn't hemmed, it wasn't stitched in anyway, it wasn't surged, it wasn't even steamed. The cut with the scissors was a rough cut with a raggedy edge. I brought the dress right back to him and he tried to tell me that that is how they shorten that type of dress. I told him that for $60 that was ridiculous and reminded him that he told me that he was going to hem it before I left it there with him. He wanted more money to hem it, and I said no. $60 to cut off the bottom inch and a half of a dress is a ridiculous amount of money to charge someone without hemming it.
He did take the dress back, he steamed it, and he hemmed it properly. However, if I hadn't opened up the plastic to look at the dress when my daughter brought it home, we would've had a dress with a raggedy cut bottom for her to wear to the prom and we would have paid $60 for that raggedy cut bottom.
I don't write these reviews very often.
I hate to write a poor review for a business, especially a local business. If I post a review on yelp it is because I really enjoyed my experience at a business or I was very concerned about other people having terrible experience like I did.
Between the arbitrary pricing for service, their policy of only taking cash or checks, and my last experience of shabby work, I have to say I think this business is a little sketchy. I am not comfortable with having to haggle for prices and would prefer to go to a tailor that has a price menu posted. This business is the only tailor in the area, but I will travel down to Staples Mill Road to go to K&K next time.
Be careful, people! Make sure that you are getting a fair price and that the work is actually done. read more