International Custom Tailors

This man is a miracle-​worker. I have two fine silk shirts, with busy patterns, that I wore the hell out of, and that got ripped at a dry cleaners. I don’t mean along the seam, I mean the fabric itself got torn. I called around, took them to a few places, and was told they were goners. I took one of them here, and this genius fashioned a patch from a piece of the shirttail that he then sewed so you couldn’t tell what he did. He glued the patch to the back of the tear, perfectly matching up the pattern. You can see the repair if you know where to look and look real closely, but with the busy pattern, it’s very well hidden. That’s when I gave him the other shirt, and he made a similar repair to it.
The store is unprepossessing, and not in a swanky area (to put it mildly), but I will continue to trust my fine clothes to this company, and I highly recommend it.

In my quest for the perfect wedding dress (ordered my current size at the time), and not anticipating losing weight and thus dress sizes, brought me here on a co-worker’s recommendation– she said he was «reasonable.» The store space is really cramped– doesn’t feel like a tailor should– kinda dark. The changing room is more like a tiny corner in the room. The location is in an older strip mall near Blueberry Hill. The doors are locked and you must be let in.
The tailor was nice, but a couple times when I came over for a fitting, the store smelled heavily of indian curry (not a fan) and I was worried that my dress was going to smell like that (ok, it didn’t, but that’s not my point). The alterations to the dress was fine but he didn’t match up the train to my dress– my bridesmaids had to pin it to my dress (it’s a good thing I brought a well-​stocked «Just In Case» bag but that’s just me) — that’s when I found out, while getting dressed for my wedding! I would not go back.