Avoid! Avoid! Avoid! I can't warn you enough, stay away from this shop!
I bought my sister a $290 gown for her Maid of Honor dress. It needed to be hemmed but had a lot of beadwork. I referred my sister to the tailor on the other end of the center but made the mistake of saying "next to fitness 19" so she went to this shop to get the dress altered. After reading the reviews, I would've never trusted this shop with the dress.
Anyway, she took the dress in with the tags still on and asked if they could hem it and take the straps in a bit. She specifically asked if there was too much beadwork on the bottoms to be hemmed and said if there was, she was just going to return the dress for another. The shop owner of course wanting her money, assured her that they could hem it no problem. He said "we have the best alterations in the area and we even do bridal gowns with more work then this."
So, my sister paid him $52 and left the dress with him. She picked it up the next week and as she walked away she noticed beads were starting to fall off the dress, so she walked back in and showed them. They gave her an attitude and said that they would "fix it" but that it would take another week.
She picked the dress up last Friday and asked if it was fixed. They said they "hand sewed the beads back on for her." She tried the dress on again on Saturday and to say that it was a bad alterations job is an understatement. The beads are either sewn so tight that they're pulling on the tulle or not sewn on at all and are falling off. The strap was sewn with the stitching on the outside of the dress as opposed to hiding them on the inside. The cut of the hem is choppy and uneven, her left side hits the ground and the right is above her toe, the back is cut way shorter. There are loose strings everywhere and beads are literally just falling off the dress. This was their "fixed" job.
I called them on Saturday and explained the problems we were having. They said they needed to see it and to bring the dress back to them. We went back today with the dress and showed the lady the issues. She agreed it was a bad alterations job and asked that we speak with the owner who would be there in ten mins. So we waited for him.
I explained to the owner the problems with the dress and his response was "well what do you know about alterations? You wanted a hem, I gave you a hem. Did you write the book on alterations, why didn't you do it yourself then?!" RUDE!! Mind you, I worked customer service for over ten years, I know what it feels like to have an upset and angry guest scream at you so I am always mindful of how I talk and treat others.
I asked for a refund repeatedly and he continued to deny it. He then said that we needed to take it back to the alterations people? Take it back to them?! We don't even know who they are? He said he gave a portion of our money to them and If we had a problem we needed to speak to the alterations lady and not to him. But it was YOUR store we paid for the services. He said he would only give us $30 because we owed him for his time sewing the beads back on. Let me get this straight? That explains why the beads were half loose or sewn so tight the tulle was ripping. He said that what did we expect with a dress like this with all beads, and that it was impossible to hem it. We explained we asked that and verified it was "possible" before leaving the dress and that if it wasn't possible we would have returned the dress, hence the reason why the tags are still on it. He refused to give us our money back and continued to make excuses for the bad job.
He tossed the dress into a ball and attempted to put it back in the plastic when a bunch of beads fell off all over the counter, perfect example of the bad job! So I told him again I wanted a full refund, he grabbed $50 out of his register threw it on the counter toward me and starting screaming at the top of his lungs "get out! Get out! You're a horrible person get out of here! I hope something bad happens to you!"
Okay, sir, so that is how you run your business? And that is why you only have one and a half stars on yelp! Good luck to you.
Take it from me first hand, this place is just awful! read more