Where I used to live, Florida, my local tailor would bring in the sides of my shirts for $7, this was about 6 months ago.
I recently finished losing about 20 pounds that I've had while in a wheel chair for the past 2 years(finally back to walking 9 months ago and working out about 3 months ago), and was looking to get my shirts all taken in to fit my new frame.
Well, I now live in VA and I just called a tailor nearby and they quoted me $35 to take in the sides of a shirt.
I have probably 40 shirts to take in, so that seems like a ridiculous price to me?
Well I thought they were joking or something, I don't know, so I called up another one, and they said their shirt tailoring starts at $45.
I called every Tailor and Dry Cleaner within 15 miles and not a single one went below the $35 dollar range.
It would literally be cheaper for me to buy round trip tickets to the dry cleaner down in Florida and then pay for the shirts to be shipped back to me.
So does my alterations guy in Florida rip himself off here?
Or is my current location ripping people off?
Or have you all noticed a similarly vast difference in alterations prices when you travel/move?
Sorry for the rant portion of my question, I suppose that I'm just pretty upset that I won't be getting the alterations I want right yet.
I recently finished losing about 20 pounds that I've had while in a wheel chair for the past 2 years(finally back to walking 9 months ago and working out about 3 months ago), and was looking to get my shirts all taken in to fit my new frame.
Well, I now live in VA and I just called a tailor nearby and they quoted me $35 to take in the sides of a shirt.
I have probably 40 shirts to take in, so that seems like a ridiculous price to me?
Well I thought they were joking or something, I don't know, so I called up another one, and they said their shirt tailoring starts at $45.
I called every Tailor and Dry Cleaner within 15 miles and not a single one went below the $35 dollar range.
It would literally be cheaper for me to buy round trip tickets to the dry cleaner down in Florida and then pay for the shirts to be shipped back to me.
So does my alterations guy in Florida rip himself off here?
Or is my current location ripping people off?
Or have you all noticed a similarly vast difference in alterations prices when you travel/move?
Sorry for the rant portion of my question, I suppose that I'm just pretty upset that I won't be getting the alterations I want right yet.
