Fatima’s Alterations

Fatima alterations is a great place to get your clothes altered. I had 2 custom suits that needed to be basically re-​cut due to losing so much weight. She did an excellent job on them and they came out looking like 2 brand new suits. Great job!

She is absolutely amazing and hilarious! I needed a bridesmaid dress and fur vest altered for a wedding, and she worked her butt off (on New Years Day) to get it done for a wedding January 2^nd! The alterations are fantastic and quality work, and she gives you a great price for it. You won’t be disappointed.

Affordable and on time.

Fatima is amazing and she is great on alterations. I highly recommend her.

Fatima altered my wedding dress. Ladies, you know that is a big deal!
She took the dress in a size or two and brought the bottom up quite a bit. She added some trim pieces. We have used Fatima for years!
Fatima is absolutely the best. Her work is quality work. She completes her work in a timely manner. And best of all, her prices are the best prices around!
Please, if you have an alteration needs, go see Fatima. I promise, you will not be dissatisfied!

What legitimate business doesn’t like talking about prices until you show up and have them measure clothing? Seems unfair and a bias way of pricing services for customers.
Unfortunately like many people I don’t have the luxury of driving tailor to tailor, trying on and getting clothing measures to get quotes. Instead, I call businesses and ask about pricing and methods of alteration so I can limit where I want to take my business. This shop lost my business since the lady cannot provide pricing over the phone, all the while being completely snappy and rude about answering my natural questions.

Why hello little old Brazilian woman! You do excellent alterations and go above and beyond? If this was Tinder for alterations we’d be a match!
Fatima was a Nordstom and Neiman’s seamstress and now operates her own shop. She does impeccable work. I took in a dress and a few other things that needed to be hemmed. I totally forgot that the dress’ straps were too long and I had them pinned. Well they aren’t pinned anymore. Fatima fixed them beautifully and didn’t even charge me.
Her pricing is great and she’s quick with her work. She’s totally old school and can be a bit tricky to understand but her tailoring does all the talking to me and understand every word.

GREAT experience. Fatima is an excellent tailor from Argentina. She significantly altered two complete suits for me in 3 ½ days and did an excellent job. She took in the crotch, the taper of the pants (making the suit much more modern) the length of the coat, etc. Really extensive work done really well. If you want a bespoke-​looking suit without having one completely made for you — Fatima is where to go.

Fatima does an amazing job.
I’m 5’8″ 160lbs, 31 waist. It is next to impossible to find dress shirts that fit my chest without a ridiculous amount of blousing. Tailored slim fit shirts that fit my chest blouse way too much. If I go a size down to avoid blousing, the buttons at my chest strain and the shirt looks even more ridiculous. I brought her a medium shirt that fits my chest and a small that fits my waist and arms. I asked if she could tailor the arms and waist area of the medium shirt the same size as the small. I tried this at an alteration place at the mall and the lady said 1) the shirt looks fine on me and 2) ok, we’ll add some darts and charge you $ 40.
Fatima said she could do it, showed me how she would do it (properly, without darting it), and said the price would be fair. I agreed and also brought her a suit jacket to shorten, and a pair of jeans to hem.
When I got the items back they were perfect. They were exactly what I wanted and you can’t tell they were tailored. The stitching is flawless and the price was more than fair for the work she did.
I’m going to attempt to add a photo of an unaltered shirt the same size/​brand/​style (it’s the exact same shirt in a different color) as the one she tailored so you can see for yourself.
You won’t be disappointed!

Scene: Sunday, rainy, 3:30 pm, driving home from San Marcos
Ring Ring… (woman picks up)
Woman: «Yello»
Me: «Hi, I need a pair of suit pants hemmed before my husband leaves town on Tuesday. Do you have the availability to do that and if so, what time could we come tomorrow?»
Woman: «I can do today, come to this address at 5pm and I will get it done for you.»
(stunned, can not speak, in disbelief, agrees, hangs up)
I arrive on time to her home sewing studio which is legit. Full on professional set up. And I know this because I’m a fashion design major and a sewing paraphenalia snob. She quickly measures my husbands fancy new Hugo Boss suit pants and we think we are going to leave to pick them up tomorrow and she says «No, sit, I’ll have this done for you in ten minutes» And then, like a wizard with some kind of phantom hands, whips out the most professional hem on a pair of pants you’ve ever seen. All while telling you funny stories and entertaining you so that ten minutes really feels like a 30 second slap chop infomercial. and BAM! all of a sudden, Fatima erases all the fear you had about walking into a meeting on Tuesday with CIOs in frayed pants… and all for the bargain price of $ 10. Who is this angel?
Now only someone who is really on the naughty list would have paid her the $ 10. I highly suggest when people work miracles like this you at least pay them double. Because if she really is an angel, God is totally going to give you bonus points for hooking his angel up with fat cash too.
We have found our new tailor seamstress extraordinaire. I will never go to anyone else. You will be so impressed with her work. Trust me because I’m a seamstress and I trust no one. p. s. She is/​was a tailor at Neiman and Nordstrom. The real thing.

I requested that Fatima actually make and design pajamas for me. She did so with superior expertise, fast turnaround and PERFECT work. She made three pair out of chenille fabric. She took the measurements of my body and designed gorgeous pjs … in the fabric of my choosing. I highly recommend Fatima to do either design or alteration work. Her prices are fair and her knowledge is broad.

She offered to complete my hemming right there in just a few minutes if I had the time to wait (which I didn’t unfortunately). I was able to pick it up when she said it was ready. She was very knowledgeable and very pleasant!!! My dress hem looked great!

Highly recommend Fatima! I ordered dresses for my 16 and 13 girls and both dresses were too big. Fatima took care of both dresses the same day. She did a fantastic job and even made hair pieces out of the extra fabric! Her price was VERY reasonable, a fraction of what I was quoted from other seamstress. I live south but going to Fatima was worth the drive. Totally 5 stars!

Always fast and quality service.

Very quick and a good job on my hemming!