Extremely disappointed, after reading the reviews I thought this was going to be a good option, close to home & not too bad. Well I brought in my bridesmaids dress for my brother's wedding and it needed to be taken in. It also had short sleeves that I wanted to be removed and stitched up so it would be sleeveless. There was a hem along the sleeves that I was told would be easy to remove and sew back as sleeveless.
After discussing price and he gave me my total, I said that I had to call my mother to check on the price before we went ahead with anything, and while waiting for her to answer my phone, he started ripping the seams open. I was so confused but I'm not an aggressive person so I just accepted it and agreed to our price.
I came back a week later and the bust that was taken in was fine, but the sleeves looked so wrong. It was a lace upper so based on other reviews he simply doesn't know how to properly sew lace because it was all bunched and not straight on one side where he removed a sleeve, while the other side was sewn perfectly straight, but at about an inch wider than the other. I pointed this out and he tried to say it was the dress companies fault. He kept making excuses until my mother finally got him to agree to just straighten the left side, and make the right arm side an inch thinner to match the left.
He told us he'd fix it and we could come back tomorrow. Well I showed up today and I should have brought my mother because the left side was untouched, he did not straighten nor fix it, but luckily the right side was straight still and now the correct width to match. But he charged me higher than we had agreed upon and when I questioned this, as it was clearly and issue with his sewing that caused they delay, he told me the price increased because he had to fix it again. When I tried to argue that the original issue was because he simply didn't sew them correctly to match, he blamed the dress company again for having bad sleeves.
I'm honestly not the most strong and assertive person, so I just accepted it and paid for the overpriced, poorly sewn dress. At this point I just want to have it and attend the wedding. It's not too noticeable but being overcharged and then have the price go up, while being manipulated and hearing his excuses was such a bad experience. I just hope no one else has to deal with that, I would not recommend. Also this is my first review on yelp and I just felt to taken advantage of and ripped off I wanted to write this. Hope someone reads this and chooses a better place for alternations next time. read more