The Happy Shirt

Awesome guy… Asked for price and it was reasonable… Also asked for some slacks to be fitted and he said it could be done… Glad to know I didn’t have to worry about him saying no

Rude ass customer service! That’s the perfect way to describe this business. I didn’t have to go into their actual shop. All it took was a phone call. This place is bad business. I do not recommend this place. What a terrible way to do business with new customers.

The happy shirt is fantastic, everything he has altered for me has turned out perfectly. Could recommend a better tailor

One of my favorite jackets had a hole in the sleeve and the zipper was broken, he fixed it in 5 minutes for $ 12 bucks! Plus he likes some good Jazz and bossa nova, I’ll be back!

I have been going to Rafael for a couple of years now and I adore him. He’s fast, reasonably priced, and gets the job done. He’s also rushed things for me without charging me a fortune. He does all my dry cleaning and alterations. The parking lot is small, but there is usually easy street parking.

Personal service, great prices to hem items and have your clothing dry cleaned. This is the only place I take my duds to. It’s small and the bathroom smells a bit funky, but overall I like it a lot.

This place is more of an alteration shop rather than dry cleaning. Service is while polite, extremely slow for how small the shop is. Due to the gentleman’s arm injury, it took him quite awhile for him to find my clothes as I had to help him identify where my clothes were and get them off the rack myself. I almost didn’t get my slacks and jacket if I didn’t check what I’ve collected as they weren’t tagged with my shirts. I don’t mind helping the guy out, but for the price, eh~
Price for dress shirts and slacks were $ 2.50 each (although I saw $ 2.00 for slacks on the list). Pretty sure you can get a better price than this elsewhere.
So with all this it’s OK. I’m guessing from other reviews, they do a kick ass job on alterations but dry cleaning results were pretty disappointing. The shirts weren’t very crisp and all my clothing had this distinct smell to them. Not some cleaning additive or what not, but a musk of someone with a particular kind of body odor…
I’ve been fabreezing the heck out of these clothes, but it’s not getting rid of the musk, so I’m going to have to reclean all of my clothes. This certainly was a waste of my money.

I found «The Happy Shirt» on Unilocal and since it had great reviews and was only a few blocks away from my apt, I decided sure why not? I came into the store not expecting much and met with Rafael. We spoke in Spanish and I told him that I needed my vintage dress re-​hemmed from the previous owner’s disastrous job and a few buttons replaced. He inspected it carefully and noticed some damage at the waist that I was unaware of. I told him I needed the dress as soon as possible so he fit me and was able to get it to me two days later. Awesome. My dress turned out perfect and he was pretty helpful and hilarious throughout the whole experience.
The only thing is, my dry cleaning had to be sent out to another place which took a lot longer than the dress. I also didn’t like the way the clothes smell. He’s the man for alterations though.

This guy is awesome. I took everything I had to him including pants with crouch rips and long pants that needed to be hemmed. Charged a reasonable price and turned everything around very quick.
Parking’s a little tight since it’s in a small complex but there’s ample street parking.
Did I mention he also gave me free body measurements!!!
5 stars!

I had a massive hole in the knee of my favorite jeans but really didn’t feel like trundling all the way to the west side to one of those hooty-​tooty-​snooty-​up-​the-​booty denim repair emporiums. I have tried a couple of these in the past and it bothers me to no end that they see fit to charge confiscatory prices for a basic tailoring service… served up with tons of attitude nonetheless.
Raphael, the proprietor of The Happy Shirt was extremely gracious and professional and even better, got my jeans in and out of there and back on me within one day. I have found my new tailor! Hallelujah!!!

In addition to be a hop, skip and a jump from my house, The Happy Shirt has done great work in the tailoring department for me! I have had jeans altered, holes patched (the patched used was so soft in the interior of the pants!) and I just recently dropped off a zipper repair. The owner is consistently friendly and the store seems to honor the posed hours. I write that because another local tailor is frequently closed when according to their business hours, should be open thereby preventing me from bringing business there on two occasions. However, the Happy Shirt is open and ready for business with a smile!

«Don Rafa» has been taking care of my dry cleaning needs, every week for the past year, and I have yet to be disappointed. In addition to dry cleaning my dress shirts, Don Rafa has sown up jackets, replaced zippers and tailored some of my shirts… All quality work! His prices are reasonable, great turn-​around time, and Don Rafa is a cool ass cat! Yet another awesome small business in the neighborhood.

Much like Sherie M., I rarely get things dry cleaned or altered but I had pretty much trashed my best suit on New Years and needed it pretty quick for an event. I brought it in on a Wednesday and it was ready by Friday at 3pm. $ 10 for a 3 piece suit. I have no idea if this is a good deal but it worked for me and the suit was spotless unlike some other places I have gone to have things dry cleaned.
Last week I took some pants in that needed a new zipper. $ 7 and ready the next day. Again, that sounds good considering all the girls I know who sew that said they would but never got around to doing it. Solid job on the pants.
The guy who runs it seems cool. Now I’m thinking about getting more stuff altered that I’ve put off.
Cash only. Only 2 or 3 spots for parking.

Disclaimer: I do not need to dry clean clothing on a regular basis. Nor do I need to have alterations done that often. Lastly, I don’t need dry cleaning in a hurry and can afford to wait several days to pick up my clothing on the weekend so I can’t comment on their speediness.
With that being said, of the 4 times I’ve frequented this place since they opened, mmm maybe more than 8 months ago (my memory escapes me), I’ve had good service there and very affordable prices. I went on vacation to New Orleans and came back with a dress and a cute jacket from a shopping trip and having both cleaned didn’t cost me an arm and a leg. Actually all four of my dry cleaning jobs were pretty inexpensive.
They pre-​printed their prices on cute flyers with a logo of smiling shirt that looks very similiar to ones on Blue’s Clues, you know the one with the little blue dog looking for clues with his owner Steve? He was cute and I had a little crush on him… sigh…
(Sorry to go off on a tangent there… back to the review!)
I find having their set prices very reassuring. A nearby dry cleaner I went to a few times isn’t very consistent with their pricing — they tell you one price and then charge you more come pick up time– so I’m glad the Happy Shirt is an alternate place to take my specialty clothes to.