F & G Cleaners Tailors

I needed to have my jeans hemmed. After reading all the wonderful reviews I decided to choose this place. Unfortunately, when I came home and saw the jeans, I was horrified. I could have done a better job by hand! I have never seen such a poor job before. I had to take my jeans to another place, where they were able to fix it. I just feel bad I wasted my time.

Easy! Great job, she does it fast, and a lot of people use her off of Unilocal.Referred a few friends for bridesmaid dresses that all had a great experience with her

Christina is a miracle worker. She replaced the tattered lining of my favorite coat and made it look and feel brand new. It’s good for at least another 10+ years. Yay! The price was very reasonable and she was able to get it done promptly. I’m really happy to have found her.

After going to one place to get a bridesmaid dress altered for a wedding I was in the following week, I was quoted $ 175. Almost as much as the dress itself! After going there I found this place from great Unilocal reviews and she did the same work the other shop was going to do for $ 60!!! Less than half of the other guys! On top of that… she is super nice and cute, and very adamant about keeping her services affordable. My dress fit great and her work was beautiful! My new go to spot!

This is the second time I have used F & G Cleaners & Tailors for alterations. I got my wedding bodice taken in and it was only $ 15! It’s nice to go somewhere where there is not an up-​charge just because it is a wedding dress (note: the dress was taken in on the seam not a complicated alteration). Both times I have used this service I have been really pleased with the quality of work as well. Work was done within a week.

I procrastinated on getting my bridesmaids dress altered. The woman at F & G was so nice about the fact that I needed the dress hemmed and strap taken in and needed it asap. I told her the last possible day I needed it by and she said she was fine with getting it done even earlier. Everyone else I went to gave me a lot of grief over that and also wanted to charge me more because of it. She also only charged me $ 35! I had been pricing around a bunch and the best price I could find before F & G was $ 65; many wanted to charge $ 80+. She did a wonderful job as well– the dress looks and fits perfectly!

Brought in 3 pairs of jeans to be patched up (need to lose a little weight). Happy with the results; Great price. If you are looking for a tailor that has fair prices and does good work, look no further. Look forward to going back to F&G for future tailoring needs.

I love finding those special dry cleaners where the tailor is gifted, professional and genuinely pleasant, kind and gracious. The tailor at F & G is a very nice lady who is able to prioritize urgent projects. When we came in needing measurements for three of us, she wouldn’t take a payment for her careful work that took up 20 min of her time.

After weeks of trying on and searching for dresses for a wedding, I finally gave up three days before leaving for the wedding, and bought a dress that was a size too big. After Unilocaling tailors in Ukranian Village/​West Town I read the reviews for F & G and figured I would stop by early Tuesday March 17^th. I was greeted by the owner. I asked her if she would be able to take the dress in one size, make it shorter and pin the cleavage area, all in two days. Without hesitation she said, of course go try it on. She pinned the dress in minutes and told me she would call me Thursday when it was done. I expected it to be expensive because of the rush but she refused to charge me a rush fee. It was $ 30!!! She called me at noon on Thursday to say it was finished. The dress turned out perfect and exactly what I was hoping for.
I purchased the dress at Nordstroms in Oak Brook they do offer free alterations, but I would have to drive out there to pick up, and they couldn’t guarantee a two day turn around. F & G is so convenient with plenty of street parking and is super cheap. I no longer have to worry if a dress is too big:) Can’t say it enough, the owner is wonderful!
One last thing she only accepts cash.

Great Service
My situation was super critical. I had the worst tear in the sleeve of my coat. I called in the morning and my coat was fixed like it never was ripped by noon. Can you say FAST?! AND a great price!
They definitely were a life saver, given that I had no coat to go home in.
I will be returning here for all my tailoring needs.

F&G provided excellent tailoring for both me and my husband for very reasonable prices! Have gone there several times and have always had great service and results.

I saw that the place had such positive reviews that I wanted to give it a chance as well. The lady was initially on the phone but got off as I dropped off my dress, pants, and a shirt. I got a yellow slip for $ 14 and agreed that I could come and pick my items up the following week. I didn’t check the hours, but I came on a Monday before 6pm and they were actually closed. I saw that one of the few other days they were open until 6 on the weekdays was Tuesday, so I made it a point to bring my ticket with me so that I could pick my stuff after work. I got in and she quickly found my clothes, and she let me know when I could bring my bridesmaid dress for alterations so that I could have it when I needed it. I came home to do a double check on all the stains that were on there, and they were gone. I’m very happy with the results — if only I could manage to be less of a messy person!

Kristina is so nice and does great work! She’s like the grandma I never had.
She did an excellent job stitching the frayed fingertips of my favorite pair of gloves back together — much better than any other tailor in Chicago so far.
She also fixed some simple waistband stitching on a pair of jeans while I waited, simply because she knew it’d be difficult for me to come back to pick them up with my work schedule. The repair was on the house!
Can’t say enough kind things about this kind lady.

nice work and affordable!!! thanks
no credit cards accepted!!!

Just brought in a dress shirt to be taken in around the midsection. For a tailor it probably isn’t the most complex alteration but Khrystyna accommodated me on such short notice and turned it around in a few hours. She even pressed the shirt for free, as she rightfully assumed I could use the help. That in itself is worth my future business. Anyway, the end result was fantastic and only cost $ 12!

I took my faux-​fur coat in – from my mother and hasn’t been cared for in at least a decade — and Kristina worked miracles. The tag from the original Detroit department store was falling off, both arm pit seams were ripped, and it was spotted with stains. (Since I only wear it once or twice a year, it took me a while to realize what bad shape it was in and actually take it in.) Kristina arranged for cleaning (usually unbelievably expensive) and did the sewing work to make it look brand new — for $ 60! She is by far the most affordable seamstress in town. Was ready in something like four days. I really love this little tailoring place and still go here even though I moved to Logan Square.

Kristina is wonderful. Always so prompt, so friendly. She does great work. Once, I dropped a pair of pants in the street (!) outside her shop and she retrieved them, called me on my cell and cleaned them for me. She also did a tricky hem job on another pair and had them ready when I needed them a few days later.
I would recommend this place to anyone wanting good cleaning/​tailoring and friendly service with a smile. She reminded me of my Polish family I never get to see anymore!

Christina is officially my new Polish mother. I am originally from CA, so when I moved away from home, finding a new tailor to replace my mother’s tailoring skills was not something that I was looking forward to. And my mother made every single one of my high school formal dresses, so the bar for this type of thing has been set very high.
This past week I purchased a 100% vintage silk Winter Kate dress and needed to get the bottom hemmed so that I wouldn’t fall flat on my face at the wedding that I will be wearing it to. The dress is a little tricky in that it’s longer in the back and almost falls in a mermaid-​type manner. Bottom line, testing tailoring skills on an assymetrical dress made of 100% silk generally ranks high on the risk scale.
I decided I would take my dress into F&G for a few reasons 1. Great Unilocal reviews. 2. In my neighborhood 3. Modest pricing quote when I called ($ 20 – 35) 4. quick work 5. open convenient hours 6. ample parking. I had emailed another tailor on Sunday night and by the time I received the response the next day at 11am, I had already brought my dress into F&G. The other tailor quoted a higher cost, in addition to a 50% upcharge for expedited service. I ended up paying $ 35 at F&G. When I brought my dress in to be measured I was told that a a 3 – 4 day turn around time was NOT A PROBLEM at all. Christina even called me on Thursday morning to remind me to bring in my shoes because she wanted the dress to be perfect. And it was.
Since the hours on F&G are not posted on Unilocal,they are as follows:
M 8 – 5
T 8 – 6
W 8 – 1
TH 8 – 5
F8−5
SAT 9 – 3
Definitely will be bringing in all the tailoring that my mother would have had to do on her next visit to Chicago.

Pani Kristina is awesome — I have been coming here for years. Every single time she fixes something for me it’s only to make the garment look like it was tailored specifically to me. Always perfection!

Christina at F & G is spectacular. Outside of the fact that she herself is an extremely pleasant woman, her work is top notch and her prices are phenomenal. My last visit was this past Friday at approximately 4:45.
She moved since the last time I was there (one building East of her previous location), and the new place is clean, warm and inviting (I can swear there was some Enya playing over the speakers). I dropped off four pairs of pants for some taking out and hem work and paid less than 50 bucks! To top that off, even though I dropped them off and was measured fifteen minutes to close on a Friday afternoon and she estimated that they would be ready by Tuesday 5:00 PM, she promised to try and have them sooner… and did!!! I picked them up this morning and everything was as it should be.
No complaints whatsoever, and will definitely continue taking my clothes to Christina at F & G whenever I need some tailoring done.