The (hopefully) definitive thread on NYC tailors

[chorse123]

Here are some Cardelino buttonholes:

 

[samblau]

I went to Wilfred's for the first time last week and am awaiting the results. I found that the pricing was a bit high for my taste however it was also my first trip to a midtown tailor. Cutting functioning button-holes for $80 a suit I am ok with however $30 to adjust the waist on a pair of corduroys seems very high. The tailor was very nice however the service seemed a bit rushed given the extent of the alterations he was talking about doing. All in all...two suits that required few alteration, a sport jacket and two pairs of pants cost me nearly $400 to alter. I'll report ack here with results.

 

[psykopath515]

So I have a suit that the blazer that needs to be taken in and shortened and the pants need to be shortened and the waist needs to be adjusted. I'm thinking of going to Hong Kong Tailor Jack, but I am not sure as I hear he is very busy and somewhat expensive. Any thoughts?

 

[dr.no]

ouch, Bhambi's has raised their working buttonhole prices to $12 per.

 

[bobdobalina]

Originally Posted by dr.no

ouch, Bhambi's has raised their working buttonhole prices to $12 per.

Which makes Cardelino at $45 per suit (for nice buttonholes that appear handmade) quite the steal.

On the subject, to give my two cents, I've had Pedro do two jackets for me and I've been pleased. His son is doing some trousers for me now. I'll be following up in a week when I get them back. My last bill for a suit (jacket sides taken in, sleeves shortened, working cuffs, neck taken down, pant waist and seat taken in, and pants hemmed) was $150, and the work was fine. Additionally, Pedro pins jackets very carefully. He's thorough, and he even asked me whether, in my eyes, the skirt looked proportional to the rest of the jacket.

Bhambi's clearly does good work but I more or less quit them after I noticed a bad case of price creep. $300 for a suit's worth of alterations-- no major surgeries-- is a bit steep.

Dynasty had done fine by me until an unfortunate mishap. I asked for surgeon's cuffs, and when I went to pick up the jacket, I noticed that they put faux buttonholes on my cuffs with a good inch and a half between each button. Not, mind you, between the center of each button, but between the close edges of each button. Had they sewn normal looking faux buttonholes, I would have chalked it up to miscommunication. But what they did was so horrid (albeit reversible), I knew that there was someone in that shop who had no earthly business working on such an expensive (to me) suit. To top it off, it wasn't ready when it was promised (18 days(!)), either. Just not worth the risk, in my opinion.

 

[SuitingStyle]

The only complain about Cardilino I have at this point (I've used them quite a bit over the past year, altered about 6 suits, all major alterations), is that they are a bit sloppy with the lining restiching after a coat is shortened.

This causes the flap in the back (double vented jacket) to have a puffy look becuase they didn't re-aline the lining back flat enough. Kinda bothered me, becuase now the flap won't sit flat against ******, looks like the jacket vents are being pull open.

 

[Reborn]

Any of you happen to know any Westchester tailors for minor alterations?

I live and work up here and I really do want to lug all my clothes down to the city for minor stuff.

 

[spreadcollar]

Looking for a dress shirt tailor in NYC... I will bring in a shirt for them to copy the body. How much am I looking at paying for this and where to go?

 

[Clench Million]

I did some searches through this thread but didn't find anything.... so sorry if this is a repeat,

but does anyone know any decent tailors for alterations on the UWS (specifically Morningside Heights?)

Thanks!

 

[kadidal]

Here are my contributions, from someone who lives in the East Village and generally won't go anywhere outside of walking range:

Pricier:
Eddie at Rothman's -- After seeing a jacket my roommate had taken in an inch and a half in the shoulders, something I previously thought impossible/inadvisable, I've had him take in a suit almost an inch in the shoulders plus take in the waist quite a bit ($120), and take in four other suit jackets at the waist ($40) and occasionally fix other problems (roll below collar,with waist, $60). Nice work all around, and very nice guy. Took a week for everything, all ready on time.

Middling:
Wilfried -- I used to use him for sleeves and hems when he had a place on 1st Ave. and 9th Street. Always high-quality work, very good measuring and always honest about what not to get done.

Ramon Tailor:
Lengthened difficult sleeve on a suit I bought used on eBay really well, and lovely job of pattern-matching the windowpane on the cuffs of the pants (with a half-depth cuff) on that same suit. But $47 for sleeves is quite a lot.

Cheap:
Kings Cleaners, East 6th St. betw. 2d & 3d Aves -- proprietor will take break from reading Chinese newspaper to hem pants for $8, the cheapest I've ever heard of in NYC. (I haven't had him do cuffs yet; straight hem work was quite excellent.) Doing sleeves on a Uniqlo coat for $15 right now. Has no idea about measurement; mark your stuff before you bring it down.

 

[cchen]

couldn't you have gotten the sleeves done at uniqlo for free?

 

[kadidal]

Originally Posted by cchen

couldn't you have gotten the sleeves done at uniqlo for free?
Uniqlo does only bottoms/hems, not sleeves -- or so they told me when i bought this last fall. Same for Banana Republic now -- they did the sleeves for free on an overcoat I bought for $200 there two or three years ago; now they don't.

 

[juuceman]

Originally Posted by kadidal

Here are my contributions, from someone who lives in the East Village and generally won't go anywhere outside of walking range:

Pricier:
Eddie at Rothman's -- After seeing a jacket my roommate had taken in an inch and a half in the shoulders, something I previously thought impossible/inadvisable, I've had him take in a suit almost an inch in the shoulders plus take in the waist quite a bit ($120), and take in four other suit jackets at the waist ($40) and occasionally fix other problems (roll below collar,with waist, $60). Nice work all around, and very nice guy. Took a week for everything, all ready on time.

I've been unhappy with the alterations performed at Rothman's on suits purchased there. A friend recently had minor jacket work performed on a suit he was purchasing there and they threw off the whole fit of the jacket.

 

[anonymouz]

can i trust a local dry cleaner who does alterations for hemming pants and shortening jacket sleeves?

and i have the same question as clench million...

Originally Posted by Clench Million

I did some searches through this thread but didn't find anything.... so sorry if this is a repeat,

but does anyone know any decent tailors for alterations on the UWS (specifically Morningside Heights?)

Thanks!

 

[af1snaikboi]

What is a good, decently priced tailor to fit me some button up shirts. possibly around $10 a shirt?

Any help would be appreciated =D