Sam’s Alteration Shop & Dry Cleaning

I like Sam a lot. He does beautiful work and very quickly too. He has altered all of my dress pants for work and a couple of bridesmaid dresses for me. I am a very short person and alterations are my life. If I were smart, I’d learn how to sew myself. But evidently I’m not that smart.
Sam is rather pricey. My pants hemming costs $ 12-​$ 15 each and I paid $ 125 each for 2 bridesmaid dresses to be hemmed, taken in on the sides, and have a strap shortened on one of them. YIKES, I know. But he’s so efficient, fast, and convenient that I can’t seem to bring myself to go elsewhere, especially given the fact that I usually need my alterations done quickly. He’s a really nice guy too. One time, he had hemmed a couple of pairs of pants for me but when I got home I realized that I wanted them just a bit shorter. I went back and he fixed them for me without an extra charge.
Sam’s the man, and I took off 1 star only because I know other places charge much much less. But for me, his convenience and his work are worth it.

This guy does an amazing job with everything I give to him to alter or dry clean. He does it in a very timely manner and its done to perfection. Also always very kind, cause lets face it, we don’t want to go to to a tailor whose not easy to talk to. That’s awkward.
His prices are also pretty reasonable, there def not cheap, but there not expensive either, I mean you pay for quality. I would recommend his services.

I was in need to fix my suit ASAP, that I found torn after last party and Sam’s did a great job in 15 minutes. So I was lucky to get on my friend’s wedding on time. Thank you!

I was in need of getting my dress tailored and I needed it to get done in two days. I usually take my tailoring to Your Cleaners, but they weren’t able to do the job on such short notice. So I searched and searched and found this place. It was about to close when I called but the owner was kind enough to wait for me since I was only 15mins away from the location. Anyway, I gave give him the dress and paid a reasonable price to get it tailored. It was done in 2 days and it was perfect. I can say I was really happy with the tailoring he did!

I know Sam Chamo quite well. We have very interesting conversations on his Christian faith and his Syrian origins. I did, however, get the impression that he’s a bit pricey. I used to go there quite a bit for dry-​cleaning, and he does a fine job there (it’s hard to screw this commoditized procedure up). I don’t recall the price differential here compared to others for dry cleaning.
He’s hemmed up some khaki pants, a sweater, and altered a pants to make into a short for Halloween time. For the first 2, he charged a bit, and he didn’t do a bad job at all — but then I have nothing to compare it to. The Halloween shorts, he charged only $ 5, and was literally complete within 2 minutes as he was talking to his friend on the phone.
Finally, now that I recall, he’s also replaced buttons on one of my French cuff shirts. Not bad, but this isn’t hard.
Based on how the folks at Brighton Cleaners do, I will start patronizing their business soon.

I usually go to the Lapels on Washington Street but they usually take a long time to do hem work so I decided to try Sam’s…
Well I didn’t even get to try Sam’s because I walked out and saved myself $ 70 dollars … yeah I said it … 7−0… which I almost mistook for a 2 – 0 … He didn’t even budge when I asked for my clothes back either … AND he purposely took the hem out he pinned too lol …
All I needed done was to shorten two simple cotton dresses… they were $ 15 bucks a piece at Old Navy, are you kidding me?

O. Ver. Priced.
Sam seems nice, in an arrogant kind of way. He charged me $ 65 to have one pair of pants hemmed and taken in. You know that expression taken to the cleaners? He’s not kidding.
The work he did was good, though the pants were a little shorter than he had indicated they would be. And he was flexible on when he could have it ready (brought in Tuesday, ready Friday instead of Saturday). But holy moly, $ 65? That’s how much the pair of pants cost in the first place. Am I getting a second pair of pants, along with the alterations?
Funny story — when I went to pick up the pants, a young lady was dropping off something to be altered. She asked how much it would be (something I should have done) and was blown away. It was $ 60-​something for her, too. She made a surprised noise, and he asked how much she expected to pay. She replied $ 30. He said no way, so she left.
Sam can charge what he wants for his time and work, but seeing as how Super Cleaners (behind the Shaws in Allston) charges $ 24 for hemming and taking in a pair of pants, I don’t think I’ll be asking for his services anymore. Surprise, Sam — I have about 12 other pairs of pants I need hemmed. And I’ll be taking them to Super Cleaners.