J Alterations

This is a great place. They are very nice people and do great work. I don’t go anywhere else.

5 stars because she’s does a good job for a reasonable price. And once when it wasn’t up-​to-​par she redid it for free! I bring all my clothes here and have recommended it to many friends

I took four pieces in on Monday for alterations – a beautiful chiffon skirt I purchased in Pondicherry, India that I had ripped; a lace skirt with intricate detailing that I had ripped in the back; suit pants with a ripped hem from my stilettos, and a pair of my favorite fitness pants with a broken zipper (that I most likely ripped from yanking on too hard). Noticing a trend here? I am so accident-​prone, I considered taking sewing classes because of the sheer volume of clothing I ruin. But then my mom – a skillful seamstress herself – recommended J Alterations.
The lady at J Alt. promised a turnaround time by Thursday, and she delivered. When she told me the total of all four items cost only $ 11.00, I was shocked for I expected to pay at least twice as much. I handed her a ten and a one and slowly inspected her work. Perfection. My clothes look as good as new, and I cannot wait to wear them.

I wanted to change my wedding dress so that it was inside out from the way it was originally, as well as change the bustline from straight across to more of a «sweetheart» look. I went in, explained to the lady, who seemed very polite, and three days and only $ 25 later, my dress is exactly how I had imagined and I am so happy! Wonderful place. The only negative thing I can even say is that you have to bring cash and can’t pay with a card, which is vaguely inconvenient, but for the price and quality of workmanship, it’s really worth a trip to the ATM.

Great work with reasonable prices. For $ 8 sewed a replacement name on the back of my daughters letter jacket and I couldn’t tell that she had to open up the lining, then sew back up.

Solid alterations at a good price. Typical turnaround is four days. Go when it’s not busy, be patient. I’ve seen people rush in and throw something down and spew out instructions like this is a dry cleaners — it’s not. Your clothing is getting altered.

Solid alterations for a low low price and turnaround time. I had a leather jacket where the sleeves had to be shortened. Got it back within 4 days and it cost me about half of what it would normally have cost elsewhere.
However, on a separate suit alteration, the lady complained that I didn’t tell her my arms were of different length, and thus I had to go back twice because she couldn’t get it right? How is this my fault? Isn’t that your job to get it done correctly?
So, basically you have to know and tell her exactly what you want on any advanced stufff.

Let me start off by saying that this review isn’t necessarily based on how well the little Asian lady who owns this place alters things – it’s based off how she runs her business and doesn’t listen to what a customer requests, and then refuses to accept blame for her screw up.
We took a wedding dress here to have a belt tacked onto the front of the dress (as in, a few stitches), as well as have the dress taken in about 2 sizes. It was a very expensive belt with a long ribbon, that would be tied in a bow at the back and have the tails of the bow trailing down the back of the dress and down towards the train. We simply wanted her to sew/​tack the front of the belt on to the very front of the dress; just a few stitches to hold the front of the belt in place. The bride explained exactly what she wanted and the lady even drew a small line on the front where she was going to sew it. She was very busy that day and must not have payed any attention, because she did something completely different. Instead of just tacking the very front on, she sewed the entire belt all the way around the dress and, instead of leaving all the rest of the ribbon so she could tie it into a pretty bow, the lady CUT OFF the rest of the ribbon and sewed the ends into the zipper of the dress!!! We have absolutely no idea how she got that out of «just tack the belt onto the front of the dress». She even showed the lady how she loved the bow in the back and the trailing ribbon.
So, the bride had to go all the way to Houston to buy extra ribbon to FIX the $ 400 belt this lady screwed up. I wanted her to pay for the entire $ 400 belt she chopped up, but the bride was going to settle with her just taking the price of the extra ribbon she had to buy ($ 30) off of her charge for the alterations. The lady refused and ARGUED with us and blamed everything on the bride, saying she told her to cut the ribbon… which is a LIE, because I was there. So she refused to pay for it and denied she did anything wrong. This woman does NOT know how to do business and she won’t be receiving any more from us. She’s lucky she wasn’t taken to small claims court for her screw up.

Run by a small Asian lady who knows her business, J Alterations is where I go to get any staple alteration done for cheap. I’ve gotten jeans hemmed and taken in, jacket sleeves shortened, shirts taken in, and all for less than I’ve paid anywhere else. Her turnaround is on time — I’ve personally never had anything come late — and I believe it’s cash only (but I’ve never really tried to pay credit). Be sure to tell her exactly what you want, though, because her tastes tend to run to the conservative so if you like your shirts more fitted than usual, you’ll have to let her know. I gave it one star off because I recommended the place to a friend, who took a jacket in there to be altered, and it came back with uneven shoulders. However, shoulders on jackets are the most difficult part to fix so I cut her some slack for that.