Finding a tailor in the suburbs is no easy task. I have pretty high standards for these kinds of services since I don't want to take chances with my clothes. Decided to give this place a shot with some basic tailoring (pants hemming) and it went great! I gave the tailor a suit pant and a pair of pants made out of stretchy polyester, and she hemmed both without any issues and did a good job (stretchy pants can be an issue sometimes if they end up stretching out the fabric during the alteration process).
To top it off the place is clean, well lit, and spacious (some of the center city tailors I've gone to are pretty cramped in comparison). The tailor makes her own masks among other things so seems like she definitely knows her way around a sewing machine.
She passed the first test so I'll be going back for round two with some more complicated alterations.
One nice little bonus is that the tailor also alters her own son's clothes, and it sounds like he prefers slimmer cuts for his clothes. Korean guys tend to have high fashion standards, so if she works on her own son's clothes then she's gotta have at least some experience making clothes slimmer and more modern looking. From my experience not every tailor agrees with or wants to make your coat or pants as slim as you want it, or they'll edge on the more conservative traditional side (read: boxy and old fashioned), so hearing her talk about her son's clothes like this was definitely a plus. read more