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    J's Tailoring

    4.4 (44 reviews)
    Closed 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Clothing alterations

    Clothing mending and repair

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    Kelvin R.

    Like many others who've set off looking for a tailor, I was invited to be in a wedding and they needed my measurements for the suit. I looked through many places and wrote down a lot of numbers, but this place caught my eye with the pictures. So I called up Yolanda (the owner) and she gave me the earliest time available and told me to bring a list of the measurements I needed. After work and before dreading the next driving stretch home, I stop by and find this classic small business with real wood floors and a picture filled walled of thank you notes from past customers. My measurements were taken in front of 5 precisely angled mirrors, while I was informed why they measured to to a certain point and given suggestions for the future as well. As I was about to leave, I remembered two coats that I bought and never wore because of their fit, so I turned around and made another appointment. The coats are back and they are lookin' slicker than a patch of ice covered in olive oil. Sorry, but as I type with one of these jackets on, I feel like anything I say is worth putting in a screenplay ... yeaaaaah not sorry. I feel like taking a chance on the right price, but wrong fit clothes, may not be as much of a chance anymore. I'll be back!!

    In love with the dress that J's Tailoring altered for me!
    Rachel M.

    I was looking for a tailor in the area that would alter a dress that I wanted to wear for a wedding; I loved the style of it but it was way too big for me and didn't even know what I could do to it to make it fit. I've had some places deny what I wanted done to a dress because they said it wouldn't be possible, so I was afraid that was going to happen. I've also had some bad experiences at other places as well. I brought my dress into J's Tailoring and didn't even think I would be able to have my dress altered only 2 and a half weeks away from the wedding. However, Jolanta made that possible and I was incredibly pleased with her work. I am someone who is fairly particular with how I like things to fit on me and Jolanta was very honest and I trusted her opinions. I came in for a second fitting 2 weeks later and I was already amazed at the work she had done and only needed minor adjustments. When I came back to pick up the dress right before the wedding I chose not to try it on there because I was in somewhat of a hurry and when I tried it on at home it fit absolutely perfectly. I thought that the price was fairly reasonable considering how much I did have done to the dress. I will definitely come back to J's Tailoring for any other special occasion I have in the future!

    Jennifer B.

    Jolanta is very nice and does a good job with altering clothes. However, the last fitting for my wedding dress I didn't feel like the boob area was secure and that the dress was too tight. She assured me that it had to be tight to hold the dress up since it was strapless. I told her I felt like it needed to be looser, but she said I don't have time. Last night I tried my dress on again And my mom couldn't hook the dress. She attempted to move the hook, but to no avail did it make the dress hook. So here I am on my wedding day having my moms friend who is a seamstress alter my dress. I'm very stressed and disappointed. Perhaps Jolanta overbooked herself, but if we are paying for a service she should accommodate her clients.

    My dress fit me like a glove!
    Dina R.

    My dress was a few sizes too big and J took the time and precision to make it fit like a glove! Such a sweet and hard working seamstress and business owner, I wouldn't have gone to anyone else and highly recommend J!

    Finished project of dress.. Couldn't be more happy with the results!

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    Jolanda is fantastic to work with and super talented at custom tailoring virtually any garment that comes her way.

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    Angeles is the owner and amazing seamstress. She has been…read moredoing this over 45 years. Both her grandmother and mother were seamstress. To say she handles emergencies is an understatement. I had three formal event gowns and only four days until we flew out at 6am so really only three days Angeles assured me she would have them ready. All three were not only completed, she had to cut so much off the bottom ( because we are short) she made us matching scrunchies for each dress. Due to my forgetfulness she could have over charged and I was willing to pay but she was a great value for this huge job. In my rush I had forgotten my sons pants She hemmed them in half an hour AND delivered them ( not really a device she offers ) but could see I was in a pickle. I can honestly say she did amazing work, everything was completed as requested and she went above and beyond! Thank you Angeles! I highly recommend her services and will most definitely be back. Hours are Monday thru Friday 10am - 6pm closed on Sundays and cash only

    So happy I found this very personable, friendly alteration shop! I am happy with their work thus…read morefar! The mother & daughter team along with their dogs, were very kind and welcoming. I had quite a few clothes for alterations and they explained everything they were going to do to the garments for the perfect fit! They offered decent prices with an average turnaround time for the completion of them. The results were great each time! I would recommend anyone needing alterations to try this shop first!! You will not be disappointed!!

    Stephanies Tailoring

    Stephanies Tailoring

    (8 reviews)

    Stephanie is top notch at what she does. She has been altering clothes for my mother for years. I…read morejust took a bridesmaid dress to her. She flawlessly made it fit like a glove. It had to be taken in at the bust, and shortened. It was a double layer slip. She gave it a slight train in the back, and added a removable halter strap for me so I would be comforable after the ceremony. She also altered my bra so it would fit perfect and not show under the dress. She did this in one week. She charged $75.00 for all of that. David's bridal quoted me $125 for the dress alone, and would not add the straps as it would "alter the integrity of the dress". It looks beautiful, and I can't wait to wear it to celebrate such a happy day for one of my friends. I'll never go anywhere else.

    Sorry...this is long, but it's important to share it all…read more I've been using Stephania for many years and have overlooked her idiosyncrasies. Over the past, she has had me buy her polish mineral water, soup for her lunch, take letters to the post office and drop something off at the local police station. (Perhaps I should've seen that last one as a red flag.) And I have done these things for her because honestly, I felt a little bad for her, but as the saying goes: No Good Dead Goes Unpunished. My son got married a couple weeks ago and the wedding was out of town. Both my daughter, who was a bridesmaid, and myself needed our dresses altered/repaired a bit. We went in and did our fitting and Stephania kept muttering things that you can't really understand and swearing, she always does this. I just ignored all of it because I was focused on having the dresses done. She said it needed to be hemmed and told me that my zipper was bad, don't know if it really was bad because we got it zipped before, but i thought do I really want to be in the middle of the ceremony and have the zipper fail? So I agreed for her to change it. I did bring her water, as a nice gesture and she said she would have the dresses ready in 10 days. That night, I started thinking about her hemming mine and really didn't think I needed or wanted that done to the dress so the next day, I went back and told her that I wanted to try it on again and didn't think I wanted it hemmed. She then said that it needed to be taken in in the hips, so I agreed to that. She also always wants to know where you bought something and how much you paid for it; not comfortable with that so I would be vague...guess that may determine the price of & how many alterations she does. Then she asked me if I was busy. I laughed and said I couldn't be busier getting ready for the wedding. She asked me if I could go get her some zippers. Well...since one of the zippers she needed was for MY DRESS...guess I had to find the time to do that. She then asked me to buy her 7 different types, sizes and colors of zippers, 4 large spools of different colored threads, and 2 yards of lining material and I being who I am said fine. I returned the next day with all of it and paid for my own zipper separately. On the Monday the dresses were to be ready, my daughter and I went to pick them up around 4:30p. She tried her's on and it fit ok. I went to try mine on and Stephania told me, "no,no,no...it's good." I was skeptical and uncomfortable with this, but paid her (supposedly she deducted what she owed me for the zippers, etc). She had no itemized receipt and said she would have the receipt for me next time. As we were leaving, she said she wanted to see pictures and was all "my honey this and my honey that..." walking us out down the hall as though we were good buddies. I got home and decided I should try that dress on and of course, there was a huge issue with it. The dress fit perfectly before...it had some snagging and beads that needed to be reattached, but for the most part, did not NEED any alterations. The hip area was a bit big on me, but would have been fine without alterations. Now, I could not zip it up and there was something sharp at the bottom of the zipper. I raced back over to her shop and she was still there and looked up at me with cold, dead eyes. I was actually shocked at the way she looked at me. (This is basically 15 minutes after all this gushing at us she did.) I told her I had a little issue and that I couldn't zip up the dress. She told me, "That's your problem, not mine." I was flabbergasted. Was this the same woman who not a half hour before was all...my honey...take pictures to show me...??? I pleaded with her not to do this to me; that we needed to work together and why was she acting this way. She used a few swear words and muttered other incoherent things and then, as I was getting undressed to show her how the dress fit, she took a bag of things I had left with her to do alterations on at her convenience, and threw it at the door and told me, "I fix dress and then no more..I no do more for you." I was in shock. Like I would allow her to touch that dress again now. I quickly got dressed and took my things and left and will warn everyone I know and don't know about her. At 5:45p, I drove, shaking like a leaf, to a tailor I had passed while driving by her shop, but never used. FIFI's Tailor Shop in Elmhurst. She calmed me down and fixed the dress to the best of her ability and had it ready for me the next day; as we were leaving town soon. She told me that Stephania had cut the lace...should NEVER HAVE BEEN CUT and that it was puckering where the zipper had been replaced so she needed to redo that. FIFI got the dress to fit me...not as well as when I had bought it and I had lost weight since buying it so that was not the issue. BE FOREWARNED THAT IF YOU USE STEPHANIA....YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU WILL GET.

    J's Tailoring - sewingalterations - Updated May 2026

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