Tailor Nightmare - White Dress Shirt

[DC35]

My tailor decided the button holes on my dress shirt were too large and did this insane patching and sowing to shrink the button holes. I never had any issue with the buttons coming loose.

Can this hack job be undone?

This was done on all 9 holes of the shirt.

 

[DC35]

 

[DC35]

 

[thesilentist]

I feel like there's more to this story. Frankly, that sounds like a problem you're going to have to take up with him directly to resolve. Never seen that before in my life, let alone knew it could be done.

 

[DC35]

Nice lady. Speaks almost no English. Now I know why the job was so expensive. All I wanted was one button moved on a cuff, all the buttons tightened because they were falling off, and the top button moved slightly to give me more room in the neck.

 

[DC35]

I don't see how it can be undone.

 

[maxalex]

Looks like a classic "misunderstanding." Chalk it up to lessons learned, and be thankful it was only a shirt. It's also a reminder that anyone with a needle and thread can hang a tailor sign. Lots of incompetence out there, and one must be especially careful of lady tailors because they are apt to cater more to women and may not understand menswear alterations so much. There is a lady tailor near me whom I trust for minor stuff like pant cuffs; anything beyond that I take to my Korean guy who always has a long wait, but he knows what he's doing.