Our ratings of area tailors and dressmakers for quality and price will help you find a shop that is a cut above the rest.

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Sample Subscriber Comments/Reviews About Tailors & Dressmakers

CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).

As You Can See Below, Some Tailors & Dressmakers Get High Praise from Their Customers. Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Tailors & Dressmakers.

• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Service: I've had several dresses altered there, one significantly, and you'd never know they weren't made..........
• Subscriber from REDMOND, WA wrote Another Service: Lani is pleasant and efficient. No time for chit-chat........
• Subscriber from BELLEVUE, WA wrote Another Service: Terribly expensive for what they do. The staff doesn't seem to care and I felt..........
• Subscriber from BELLEVUE, WA wrote Another Service: had t a terrible experience which I have already reported in separate report. requested 2..........
• Subscriber from BELLEVUE, WA wrote Another Service: the tailoring is very good and at a good price. The cleaners is a disappointment...........
• Subscriber from BOTHELL, WA wrote Another Service: One person was unpleasent. Language was also a problem. Simple alterations were done well. More..........
• Subscriber from TACOMA, WA wrote Another Service: Really quality work but so very busy, that the wait at times, is some what..........
• Subscriber from WOODINVILLE, WA wrote Another Service: Amazing work! I had the liner of my leather jacket replaced and the end result..........
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Service: Adam does a very professional job........
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Service: Prices are similar to other firms but quality of work is better. They need to..........
• Subscriber from SAMMAMISH, WA wrote Another Service: Very good tailor!.......
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Service: A delightful business, very professional and superior quality........
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Service: This man altered my wedding dress. It came out exactly as I asked him to,..........
• Subscriber from BELLEVUE, WA wrote Another Service: This tailor is no longer at this location. Please update your records........