The short story: an oily-fingered misogynist with unfair pricing for an inferior quality of service.
I brought a bunch of dresses in to be altered.
One of them was altered OK. However, on the other two there were serious issues.
The worst one was a brand new gown for my best friends wedding, which I brought in brand new and got back with OILY FINGER STAINS all over the dress. When I complained about it, he did not take any responsibility, but rather said
"oh, yeah, those were there."- I say again: the dress was BRAND NEW. He said, "take it to a dry cleaner they'll get it out." Did he take any fraction off of my $280 bill? No. And, when I took it to the dry cleaner, she looked at it, made a couple of "tsks, tsks" before saying "whoever tailored this had oily fingers," which she gathered based on the placement of the stains near altered seams. She tried her best, but could not get out all of the stains. Of course, she (the dry cleaner) gave me a discount even though it wasn't her fault that she couldn't get out all of the stains, which is an example of good customer service in case the owner of the shop reads this and wants to learn something about how good business is conducted. So now I'm going in a stained dress to my best friend's wedding.
The other dress is fixable but I will need to take it back to another tailor, because he altered it wrong. You may be wondering how someone could alter a dress wrong. Well, it's a wrap-style dress that is meant to show the tiniest bit of cleavage. I should mention that I'm a pretty conservative dresser for someone who is not religiously orthodox- I mean that it's a TINY bit of cleavage. But that was too much for his sensibilities, so against my wishes he altered the dress so that it covered me up because he thought I needed to dress more conservatively.
When I told him that it wasn't right, he even shortened the straps to pull it up higher on my chest and said "no, no -like this to cover you up more." | should also mention that to most of the women who came into the shop he was glaringly rude, but was so deferent to all of the man who came in.
I posted this review on Google too (clarifying this here, so that it is clear that this isn't posted by a bot) in the hopes that no other women get spoken to rudely or get their clothing stained. Ladies - are we really going to put up with a man who tells us how to dress in 2023? NO THANK YOU! read more