I went to a stitch in time for dress alterations for my recent wedding and I'd recommend it to…read moreanyone. After purchasing my dress 6 months before my wedding, I proceeded to lose 45 - needless to say the dress was way too big. Olivia worked her magic and provided me with a flawless dress that fit perfectly. She added a bustle that looked amazing and made me a veil that matched the dress better than the veil made to match the dress by the original designer. I chose to use Olivia's veil instead of the one I had originally purchased because I loved it so much. Needless to say, my experience with a stitch in time was flawless!

I purchased my wedding dress from For Love Bridal and was referred to A Stitch in Time Bridal…read moreServices for alterations. By the time my dress arrived, I had lost a significant amount of weight since the day I ordered it. I was honestly starting to panic because the dress was much too big and didn't look anything like it did when I tried on the sample. Anne at A Stitch in Time was absolutely amazing. She immediately put me at ease and handled the alterations with so much skill and care. Not only did she get the fit exactly right, but throughout the process she also shared so much helpful wedding advice that made the whole experience even better. By the end of it all, I genuinely felt like we had become family. I couldn't recommend A Stitch in Time Bridal Services more highly. I would happily go to them for every alteration in the future!

Omg. Linda and her team are the best- I had a very complex dress situation and they knew exactly…read morewhat to do. Linda is amazing and I will only take my items here. Highly recommend.

Linda is the greatest tailor in all of LA. My now-wife was looking for someone to work on her…read morewedding dress and Linda did the most amazing job. She was so kind and quick. My wife came home so overflowing with compliments about Linda that I knew I had to go to her for my Tux as well. I had the idea to do a custom lining of photos of us through the years (found on Etsy), and it came out perfect. She brought in the pants, hemmed up the sleeves, and made my vision come to life. If you have an event or need a suit or dress- you need to go to Linda and the pros at R&L Tailoring.

I came here and needing to get some pants hemmed on a rush job…read more Delivered on time. A job well done. Hem was well placed over my shoe. I would use their services again.

The alteration work itself is fine, but the way they handle pricing is not…read more I called ahead, explained I needed a skirt taken in and hemmed within a week, and was told that was no problem. At my first visit I said clearly that I needed the skirt shortened. She told me that taking it in can change the length, so we should wait until the second fitting to see whether it still needed shortening. That made sense. She quoted me $60 and explicitly said she's charging me for both hemming and altering. I came back a few days later. The skirt still needed to be taken in further and shortened. Only after she finished pinning me did she tell me it would be an additional $50. At that point I was four days out from a wedding I was in as a bridesmaid, with no time to take the skirt anywhere else (the skirt was part of a 2-piece set). The price went up at the exact moment I had no ability to walk away. I absolutely won't be back because they scam people like this. I ended up spending $110 on hemming a skirt, which cost more than the entire set itself. One correction to their website: it still advertises this as George's family business. George has passed, and none of his family works there.

I went to Linda's Couture for many years. When Linda decided to retire, Silvia took over the…read morebusiness. I have already taken her many (!) items for alterations. She is very friendly and very professional. The quality of her work is excellent. In my experience, her value is unique. She does couture work for reasonable prices. I have already recommended her to others.

This is hands-down one of the worst businesses I've ever encountered. The woman, Silva who runs it…read moreis shockingly rude, unprofessional, and impossible to communicate with. She speaks to customers as if she's doing them a favor, rather than providing a service. She messed up the jackets I sent her and instead of fixing them said she would charge to fix them and then tried to yell and fight with me. There are so many talented, kind tailors in LA and she is absolutely not one of them. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

This was by far the most stressful part of wedding preparation. Maria was one of the recommended…read moretailors from my dress shop. I had my first appointment with Maria on April 19th, 2026. Her quote was a bit high for the work that was needed (there wasn't much to be done), but I trusted what all the other reviews said and decided to go with her. She was also very personable during the appointment so I felt comfortable moving forward - she required full payment at the first appointment. My second appointment was supposed to be May 24. She cancelled a couple of days before and said she would reach out to reschedule. When I didn't hear from her, I texted her to see when she would be able to reschedule. She suggested June 20...which was almost a month later than we were supposed to meet. I pushed back and said I would feel comfortable meeting no later than June 7 - I even offered to come on a weekday if that worked better for her. Miraculously, she had June 7 available,. I had a gut feeling before the appointment that no work had been done, and I was correct. At that appointment, she just put me in the dress again and stuck some more pins in there. She assured me that the dress would be done at the next fitting on July 3. When I got there, there were a few things that I wasn't completely happy with, so she said she could fix it there on the spot...she told me that it would take about 30 minutes - so I just walked around Beverly Hills for that time. After about 45 minutes, I came back to the salon, and texted her that I was there (her office is in the back). Well, she came out about 10 minutes later with another bride! In that time when she was "working" on my dress, she met with another bride for her fitting! I was so frustrated and angry, and she could tell. She asked me if I wanted to try it on again...um yes of course I do. Overall she did an okay job for the dress, but I wish I would have gone somewhere else where they were more respectful of time and professional.

I want to be direct so no other bride goes through what I did. This was, without exaggeration, the…read moremost stressful and damaging part of my entire wedding. I found this tailor through a friend. I had a bad gut feeling early on, but the positive reviews here reassured me. I now believe some of those reviews are pressured, because that's exactly what she tried to do to me. Timeline: - Initial phone consult: Quoted ~$850. I chose her partly because the price was competitive. - Dec 20, 2025: First in-person appointment: The quote nearly tripled to over $2,000. When I tried to leave, she made it so difficult to walk out that I felt I had no choice but to agree, and I left my Monique Lhuillier gown in her hands. She provided no contract, receipt, or any documentation that she had my dress. - Two fittings followed, though it was rocky: She cancelled two follow-ups on short notice, and went nearly unreachable for about three weeks (unanswered calls and texts) while holding my designer gown with very little communication and nothing in writing proving she had it. I kept communication positive yet persistent, as I was genuinely afraid I would not get my dress back before my wedding. - Jan 17, 2026: final agreed "pickup date" (about two weeks before my wedding): I walked in knowing I had to leave with my dress in whatever state it was in, because she'd gone MIA and kept canceling and I no longer trusted that I'd get it back at all. She wanted to keep it (she said it still needed two more fittings) but I refused. Despite handing me unfinished, damaged work, she pressured me to write a positive review on the spot before I could leave, physically stood between me and my own dress, and only backed down once someone else on site had to step in to de-escalate. - In the week before the wedding, I was forced into three emergency fittings with a different tailor just to make my dress wearable. To note as well: her "studio" is a small back room with no full-length mirror, nowhere to lay out a full train or veil, and dirty floors. She was late (about 30 minutes) to every single appointment. But the real problem is the work. A second, professional tailor assessed the gown and put her findings in writing: ** QUOTE FROM OTHER RECOMMENDED TAILOR: "This was not a minor oversight; it constituted a significant mishandling of an extremely valuable and intricate garment. The work required to correct these alterations was extensive and time-consuming, transforming what should have been a standard fitting into a complex restoration project. In my many years of experience, this level of improper execution on a designer gown is rare and, frankly, unacceptable."** Specifically, this tailor noted: (1) boning installed so poorly it punctured through the delicate lace and left permanent holes; (2) a hem cut roughly 1.5 inches too short; and (3) three of the gown's six original crinoline layers cut down or REMOVED -- permanently altering the volume and silhouette the designer intended. We had to buy new crinoline directly from Monique Lhuillier factory and worked with their flagship store to restore it and reinstall full layers of my dress to get it to the original/intended design. The damage was not fully fixable. The boning problem is still visible in my wedding photos, forever. So please read the glowing reviews here with skepticism. On pickup day I was pressured to post one on the spot and she truly would not hand over my dress until I did so. I had to bring in the nail salon staff to help de-escalate and have her give me my property back. A review posted here just weeks after I dropped off my dress described the same thing: a bride not getting her gown back until the DAY before her wedding. A friend of mine used her too, and had the same playbook run on her: a phone quote that roughly doubled in person, and an internal corset left so visibly wrong it was noticeable throughout her entire wedding day. I stayed calm and polite through all of it. That doesn't change the facts: I spent the last two weeks before my wedding scrambling and paying a second professional to undo this work, and I was so run down that I was sick on my own wedding weekend. Bottom line: unless you have money to burn, weeks of buffer in your timeline, and no attachment to your gown coming back the way you handed it over, do not trust a valuable dress to this business. I did, and I'm still living with the results in every wedding photo.

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Puga brought my dream dress to life. I wanted to make a few changes to the gown I bought and she…read moredid that and then some! She had amazing ideas that elevated my vision, and her work is truly amazing. Can't wait to wear my dream dress, thanks to Puga. Couldn't recommend her more!

Luba is incredible and so good at what she does - not to mention she's a gem. Go to her.read more

Rose completely saved me when my bridal shop got me my wedding dress two weeks before my wedding…read more She was patient and willing to help me in my crisis and went above and beyond to create the dress of my dreams. She was so kind and did extremely high quality and creative work to bustle my very long train. Would HIGHLY recommend

Do not reccommend for wedding dress alterations. Took my dress in 3.5 months before wedding, she…read morewas so nice and talked me into paying more for her to design sleeves. I paid half up front. When I came for my scheduled follow up appt 2 weeks later, she was not there nor was my dress in the store. I made another appointment, when I showed up, she had not done the sleeves, and the adjustment to the bodice was bad and she had changed how the zipper laid. In total, I went to her place 5 times before taking the dress to another person, 3 of those 5 times she was no show/reschedule. Mary was very mean to me, demanding that she never said certain alterations were included, like bringing in the sides, and I had to produce the receipt she had written it down on. After seeing her handwriting, she then said very mean things about my body and made me cry. The other alterations person said she did the bodice and the zipper in a non professional way. Mary said she would give me a half refund of $250, of which she only has given $80 bc I showed up in person asking and it has been 3 months of me asking. I think if your a UCLA student looking to get pants hemmed, her store would be a great fit, but I would avoid for any wedding or complicated things. Make sure you take a picture of what you drop off and have her write down what she's agreed to do -- she spent a lot of time saying untrue things, and then I'd show her the picture of how the zipper looked before she messed it up, etc. Included is a picture of her work where she 'fixed' the bodice chest part.

Mary is the BEST ! I've been to a good handful of tailors in the westside and she does amazing work…read moreat a great price ! I've brought 4 dresses at this point. 1. A pink crochet dress that was 2 sizes too big and magically altered it everywhere. 2. My Monique Lhuillier wedding dress. I couldn't trust this piece to just anyone, but was convinced she would be the hands to do it especially after she told me she used to make wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses. So, her design background was extremely valuable to me. She was able to hem it from the middle as the bottom hem was untouchable because of the design, changed the dress to a halter at my request and hand sewn the lace pieces back into place- masterful ! It was a rush job (2 weeks) but It fit me like a glove on my wedding day with so much ease and joy! 3. My wedding reception dance dress It had vertical tulle that was NOT easy to trim but she DID it , made me a slip, and made it into a halter with 2 invisible buttons to adjust the length. 4. Hemming my bridesmaid dress. No picture but it was hemmed about 5 inches to perfection. Eventhough I live outside of LA now, i will still only trust my dresses to her! Mary is a sweet soul and master tailor!