Rivas Retoucherie Tailoring

Armando at Rivas did an outstanding job on a last minute top I needed taken in 2 days before a wedding. I am so grateful for his last minute help and will always refer him as a top notch tailor. Thank you for helping me so very last minute and for your great work!

My family and I were loyal customers for years but unfortunately had to take our business elsewhere after multiple mistakes. I own vintage mens clothing dating from 1900−1930s and brought some of my best clothes here to be done, every time I explicitly stated what I wanted done, including having the fabric not cut when altered. Sometimes the work was top notch and other times, and what came to be expected was unacceptable. My instructions were not followed on a number of items which left me with irreparably damaged items that the proprietor did not see the issue with. Instead of being treated with care and instructions followed they were passed off to other people in the shop to work on haphazardly. In the end I could not rely on Riva’s to do the jobs I asked and paid, for so I had to take my business somewhere else where they had consistency and actually listened to customers and didn’t just blindly say «Ok».

I brought in 2 pairs of chinos and a pair of jeans to be tapered and hemmed he did a great job and got them done in the time he promised i will be returning

So far they’re 3 for 3. Had two suits (including my wedding suit) and a pair of pants tailored there and they’ve come out great. No complaints.

I’ve had a few items tailored over the years, ranging from Halloween costumes to bikinis. Rivas always does a great job for extremely affordable prices and with excellent turn around times. Plus, the owner has been really cool about minor, last minute alterations.
Fyi — Parking can be difficult sometimes. There are just a few meters on/​around the block.

I’ve been here twice for alterations. I had a jacket taken in and a pair of slacks hemmed. Both times, the turnaround was quick and the price was cheap.

I’ve taken a few jeans here for hemming and every time they make them too short and don’t leave enough material to let the hem out even though I request not to cut the material. The owner is kind of snotty too.

A truly terrible experience that made me cry and ruined a vintage dress with sentimental value.
I brought a chiffon evening gown to be altered to cocktail length, which was a simple length alteration. I usually would have done this at home on my Singer, but since the dress was one of my mom’s concert dresses from the 70’s (she is a pianist) I wanted to take extra good care of it. I had 3 instructions: altered to a specific length, a 2″ hem, and keep the fabric scraps so I could make a small matching accessory. This place failed on every single point:
1. The dress was hemmed too short. I tried on the dress and he marked a length below the knee, but when I received the dress back it was more like lower-​thigh. As I don’t care to look like That Young Floozy during professional business functions, this is not a length that works for me. In addition to being hemmed too short, the hem was sewn so crookedly that it actually unraveled in some spots.
2. It had a ½″ hem instead of the 2″ hem requested, so there wasn’t enough fabric to lengthen the dress to the longer length I specified.
3. He threw away all the cut fabric, again making it impossible to lengthen the dress AT ALL.
He still charged me $ 60 to get the dress back from him. If I could remember what he looked like, I would gladly roll him in decaying tuna and set loose rabid feral cats. As that is not an option, a negative Unilocal review will have to suffice.

Great tailor and great prices.

This is the only place I go to for my suits and slacks. I’ve taken my suits to get tailored at many different places, but this place does it the best and for the most reasonable prices.
I live all the way out in Monterey Park, but I still come back here to get my suits tailored.

So, I only go to this place because it’s conveniently located a few blocks away from home. They’re fairly quick, and inexpensive ($ 10 to hem jeans), and seem to do a decent job for the most part. I wouldn’t recommend having them hem more than jeans, as even jean hemming can be a bit spotty with them. They’ve actually hemmed a pair too short once, which was a bummer because they were some expensive Diesels.
If you’re in need for a quick jean hem, then I guess this place is decent. My wife refuses to go there anymore because they botched up something, and then charged her for them to fix them. Not cool.

I have always had a great experience with this establishment. I have taken practically everything in my wardrobe to him– pants, dresses, coats for both major design changes and minor hem lines and repairs. He listens carefully and lets you decide the length of your hem based on what you want. He is great with «keeping the original hem» of distressed jeans. I have had him take in the waist bands and hips of pants that stretched out and they have turned jeans that were in the give away pile into all time favorites. I used to get nervous before dropping off alterations– I haven’t been disappointed and I have been going here for years.

These people are polite, fast, and very competent. What more could you ask? When I lived in Los Angeles, I went to them all the time to alter my clothes and they did a great job at very reasonable prices.

Riva’s has done my alterations for nigh on four years now. Armando’s work has been grand and he is quite friendly. The only drawback is that he has a lot of business and has pushed back my pick-​up dates once or twice, though as I always give him ample time to make my adjustments, it’s never a major issue. I would recommend him to a friend… and have!

Mr. Rivas is by far the best «jean doctor» I have ever been to, he tailors my true religion jeans with true stitching the best I’ve ever had done. From coats to dresses I am always 100% HAPPY.

always had a good experience here — he is very friendly and i’ve never had a problem with my alterations. he did a next-​day alteration for me that turned out great, and everything’s always been on time. however, parking is a bitch and it is in a random location that is hard to find. i’ve been lucky with street parking, but they do have a parking lot (which can only fit like 5 cars and they share that with other establishments) — if you can’t find parking, you could park in the lot across the street where simpang asia and the dry cleaners is.

Hems like the wind. He does next day alterations. A coworker recommended him.

DO NOT GO TO THIS ESTABLISHMENT!!! WORST TAILORING EXPERIENCE EVER!!!
I dropped off a dress and material to Riva’s 3 Saturdays ago for some VERY simple alterations I needed done for a dance performance. I explained very carefully what I needed done, and was assured that it would be ready the next Saturday (one week later). So I came down the next week, was told that he hadn’t finished it because he had been sick. No apology, nothing. But hey, I thought, everyone gets sick sometimes. So he told me to come back later that week and it would be ready.
I didn’t have a change to come back during the week but went in again this Saturday (now a full week later than he had told me it would be finished) to find that not only was it NOT NEAR finished, he had completely not done what I had wanted and had cut the material I had given him all wrong (and these were SIMPLE alterations)!!! He just shrugged and said he didn’t finish it because he wasn’t sure what I wanted. I had been there twice before this and we had thoroughly discussed what I wanted.
Once again, no apology, and now he has ruined the material I gave him (which wasn’t cheap!). He is closed on Sundays and I tell him I need it Monday (today) absolutely. He says I can’t come pick it up Monday morning because it won’t be ready yet (even though he has the rest of the day to finish it that day, I notice) so now I have to drive all the way across town on my lunch hour today to go and pick up my dress which I can only hope is slightly wearable. But I don’t even want to hope at this point.
BOTTOM LINE: It is now over a week late, and was altered completely wrong. And no apology whatsoever. DO NOT GIVE THIS MAN YOUR MONEY!!!