The owner always has a condescending, vaguely annoyed tone, and that just sort of adds salt to the wound. I don't enjoy being talked to like that, but I attributed it to a non-native English speaker who was using different inflections and cadence in speaking. Yeah, no, he's just a patronizing unpleasant human.
Clothing article 1: Dockers khakis with the stretchy part starting to come apart.
These are the elastic waist dockers. I wear a 34, but i fluctuate, so I like this style with the elastic waistband. Part of the fabric which attaches to the elastic band was beginning to separate (a slow rip). To be clear, this wasn't the stretchy material, it was the cotton part that is sewed to the stretchy material. I asked if they could simply sew it up to reinforce it. It was in an easily accessible place, and could've been easily placed on a sewing machine. The answer was no and I should go buy a new pair of higher quality pants. I was confused, and the lady simply told me to buy a new pair. The pants were in good shape otherwise. But, I get it, they don't want do it.
Clothing article 2: Jeans with a hole in the crotch
Instead of sewing a piece of fabric behind the hole to help conceal the original hole, they put a large patch on the outside. They also sewed concentric lines all throughout the patch. I was befuddled to say the least. What I've gathered about this place is that they intentionally do things like this to troll their customers.
Clothing article 3 (the final straw): A flannel robe with too large arm openings
I brought in a brand new flannel robe to have them reduce the size of the arm openings. The lady kept saying saying things with the word "side" in them. I couldn't for the life of me understand her. She gestured to the shoulder part, and I tried several times to clarify. Finally, I figured out that she thought the robe was double sided. So she was trying to tell me that I wouldn't be able to wear the robe on the other side after the work. Well, the robe was not reversible, why is why I was completely befuddled. I explained that I simply wanted to reduce the size of the wrist openings, and that the entire arm would be reduced too, which was fine. It's not complicated- you cut a triangle shape out of it and resew it back together. I made very clear i didn't care about the any aesthetic considerations.
I could tell she didn't really didn't want to do the work, and I flat out asked her "Do you not want to do it?" She insisted it was fine, so we kept discussing it. I should've just walked out then and there. Describing what I wanted was a tedious process. I said that I really wanted the openings to be narrow so I could just barely get my hand through it. She argued with me on that, and told me the opening was going to be bigger than what I requested. I wanted the opening fairly snug so it would not slip since the arms were a little long. But I acquiesced. Again, all that was needed was to cut a triangle and resew it back together, to make the arm opening smaller. I get that there was some intricate work that would have to be done where the arm meets the shoulder. That's fine. But these are supposedly professionals. I was baffled at all the pushback and feigned confusion. Why am I explaining how to do it? Why am I being told that I can't have what I'm requesting?
Well, instead of cutting a triangle shape out, they did some bizarre thing where they simply folded the fabric up and sewed it together, all wadded up. So there was a big clump of fabric running down the entire arm and especially at the wrist openings. Additionally, they shortened the length of the arm so it barely reached my wrist any more. I liked the fact that it was too long- I just wanted the wrist openings narrowed. That's it, that's all! Again, I have no doubt they did this intentionally as some sort of passive aggressive tactic, and that is why they are getting 1 star. They also didn't reduce the opening barely at all, thus making the whole thing pointless. I asked the owner, and in his condescendingly patronizing voice, he told me some gibberish excuse that didn't make sense.
I want to be clear that I am a polite and patient customer. I treat people with respect and try to be very pleasant. If they had just said "we'd rather not do this", I would've been fine with that. Instead, she constantly looked for excuses, and almost seemed like she didn't know how to do it. I had to explain what was needed. It wasn't complicated. They completely ruined the robe. I took it to another alteration place in town, and they were completely dumbfounded as to why Yong's would wad up the material and do what they did. By the way, the job they did do was poor and even had incomplete sewing.
I think they are only capable of very basic and very simple repairs. They can't do stuff that requires professional level alterations. read more