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Originally posted by taxwonk
Most dry cleaners also offer tailoring and I have found them far superior to most store tailors. If you order something and it isn't alterable, you can return it.
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The only problem with getting alterations done at a dry cleaners is that they can't replace your stuff if and when they screw it up. I would never trust an expensive suit to a cleaner.
3 actual events -
Tailor measures $300 pair of Zanellas for "no-cuff" when we asked for cuff. Tailor cuts pants and sews cuffs in. Pants are now ridiculously short and Nordstroms has to eat a $300 pair of pants and give us a new pair.
Get pants at Saks. Have them hemmed. Idiot salesman gives pants to another customer. We receive someone else's pants - which would have been OK if my husband wore a 30x36. Saks has to call every store in chain to try and find a replacement pair. Saks eats a pair of pants.
Take khakis to dry cleaner to have hemmed. Nice lady "accidently" hems pants too short. Try to fix pant length. Too late, not enough material for a hem. We don't pay for alteration, but WE also had to eat a pair of pants.
Finding a good tailor at a department store is tricky. But once you find one, cling to them for dear life. Saks has typically taken 2 attempts to get things right. Nordstroms is usually very good - but this one time we were at the Stanford store (never again) and ended up having to drive to freaking Stanford twice.
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