Sima’s Tailor & Tuxedo

Where do I even start with Sima? After receiving my dress a month late Sima was able to work magic with only two weeks until my wedding. Sima worked tirelessly to get it perfect. I would honestly trust no one else with my wedding dress. It was a complex design that required talent, confidence and skills that Sima clearly possesses. She was so kind and amazing to work with. Sima thank you for making my dress perfect for my big day.

Sima was a lifesaver! She got my son into a great quality, great fitting tuxedo at a reasonable price on 24 hours notice. Service was very fast and she was kind and easy to deal with. Would definitely recommend for tuxedo rentals.

Sima is, in a word, wonderful. She took such great care in helping our son choose his tuxedo for his first prom and tailor it to absolute perfection. By the time we were through picking up the tux, Sima felt like a member of the family. You’re in exceptionally good hands with her. Everyone in Laguna swears by her and now we know why!

Sima always provides friendly service at a reasonable price. I have been going to her for years. She recently placed a custom liner in my Billy Reid hunting jacket. The job was was flawless. All the inner pockets were kept in their original locations and the patchwork was perfectly preserved as well. Sima’s workmanship is exquisite and second to none.

Sima does very fine work, you get what you pay for. She’s very nice and conversational, will always suit the needs of her customers. Highly recommend

Trusting someone with the most important (and most expensive) thing I’ll ever wear was not easy for me. I quickly learned that Sima’s shop is a neighborhood shop where she knew everyone that walked through her door and everyone was like family. I was referred to Sima by Casablanca Bridal where I purchased my dress. I loved my dress but it needed a lot of work. It was too big and it had very intricate detail. I honestly don’t know how she did it but my dress was perfect. It looked like it was made to fit me. The trust paid off and I got to learn a lot about Sima’s shop, her loyal customers and her dedication to her work. She wanted to make sure I was 100% happy. The price was higher than I would have liked (but I’m cheap) and I completely understand the amount of time and work it must have taken to get it right so it was worth it. I will definitely come back to see Sima with any future alterations. Thank you Sima!

Sima never disappoints. Came to her with my old vintage sport coat and she had it back to me in 2 days. It was unbelievable seeing all of the alterations she made in such a short period of time. Turned my 1980’s coat into something brand new.
Cheers, Sima!

She’s AMAZING I can’t even say it enough! I took my shirt in to get fixed and I can’t even express how happy I am!

This review is long overdue: last year I took 12 pairs of pants and designer jeans to Sima as I had lost weight and changed shape significantly. The result was less alteration and more custom tailored! I guess I should have expected it from someone who is an authorized tailor of Zegna suits. All my pants now fit like they were made just for me and her prices were every reasonable too!

I came to Sima after losing a lot of weight with all my suits fitting like a sack of potatoes. She not only repaired and altered my vintage Armani but a classic seersucker too. My other suits she recommended I give away as it would be cheaper to buy a new one than alter (I lost a lot of weight).
The work was first rate and since then we have had clothes for both myself and wife made there. Sima is a sweetheart.

She made the money shirt so fast from pattern that I chose I was impressed and 90 year old grandpa loved it for his birthday

Not impressed, not happy, and one of the worst experiences I have ever had with customer service. I will disclose this relates more to the service than the alterations.
1. First, the original price she quotes me was ludicrous. She came down to a fair price after I finally started to walk away, but I felt like I was bargaining in some crazy stressful auction. She came down more than 2x the first price she proposed, which was highway robbery. The new price was more fair and STILL high, but even this involved a lot of stress, haggling. and ridiculous comments, like that only she is the best and everyone else will ruin it and that if I don’t want it fine — she has plenty of business and doesn’t need mine. It was so weird and I tried to walk out and say thank you, but no thank you over 3 times. Every time she would throw a new price at me to make me stop from walking out the door – which is really all I wanted to do — it was EXTREMELY uncomfortable.
2. Gave me a pick up date 2 days before I needed it (for a big, important event in my life) but I brought it in 4 weeks early. This would have given me no time to get shoes or figure out a contingency plan if something went wrong.(which it did) So, I said I needed it early and again was yelled at «why do you think your the only, other people need things too and on and on» In my head I’m thinking lady I am giving you three full weeks to do a simple alteration if you can not do it that is perfectly fine I will go somewhere else. (in fact please let me) After some aggressive rhetoric she agreed on an earlier date. (don’t worry, I called when that date came to go pick it up and she shouted at me NO, THAT ISN’t WHEN WE AGREED UPON and mentioned the first date again 2 days before my event that I said I was NOT okay with!!! She then told me if I picked it up now to take it somewhere the dress would be in PIECES and hung up on me. At that point I just wanted to never speak to this business EVER again. So I go in and the dress hadn’t been touched — really wondering where the threat of «if you pick it up now it will be in pieces came from»
3. If I never had to hear or go to that place again for the rest of my life it will be too soon. She was rude to the point where I was shaking from being upset. I went home from that first interaction so stressed and upset. I have never been treated that way by a business in my life, let alone a seemingly innocent look older lady…
End of story – alterations didn’t look good and the price of the dress + the price of the alterations will be a sunk cost. But, I would have paid a million to not go here again. Oh, the icing on the cake was taht she told me when I picked up the dress that I «drove her crazy».well good. the feeling is mutual.
According to the other reviews maybe she just didn’t like me, but I have never been yelled at like that, felt so disrespected, cheated, swindled and upset from a business in my life.
Was only nice when I was about to take the business away multiple times and after I paid. But not before a lot of «you listen to me’s» and «I have lots of customers I don’t need your business» The shift from mean aggressive to sweet and thankful was almost frightening.
THEN when I finally come pick up the dress – much later– I see jagged cutting lines. She tells me she is going to find a hanger for but instead hems it secretly in the back room – I guess she still hadn’t finished it.. I mean really.
Overall this lady can put on quite a nice act, but is not. At all. and regardless if this is family business or not I stand by every single world here. Don’t ever treat customers like you did to me and you will not get bad reviews.

Came here based on the great reviews but am very disappointed. Wanted to get a pair of jeans hemmed to look like the original hem and was quoted an extremely high price. Said ok since I had already made the trip out there, and when I got my pants back, one leg was shorter than the other, and it’s too short. The jean hem also is very thin and doesn’t look like the original hem, and the stitching on one of them isn’t straight. This could be okay if the price wasn’t so high, but for such a high cost and these great reviews, I expected much better quality. Will not be coming back here and wouldn’t recommend for a simple pair of jeans hemmed.

Sima did the alterations on my wedding dress and I could not have been happier with how it turned out. There was alot of work to be done to the dress and Sima worked hard through several fittings to get it perfectly right. She is so talented at what she does and at the end of our multiple meetings, we felt like friends. She is a sweet woman who is the absolute best at what she does. My wedding dress was PERFECT!
Thank you Sima :)

Sima was amazing in transforming a vintage gown of my mother’s that I had reworked to wear for an elegant family wedding. She did an fantastic job and it was really a challenge since the dress was over 60 years old and a fragile fabric. She is the master!!! She worked on a very tight time deadline and had incredible attention to detail.
Mary Mc in Laguna Beach

Professional Work
Went to another local tailor to have a pantsuit hemmed (brand new and not cheap). Picked up the pantsuit and the outside seams were 2 inched shorter than the inside seams and there was a hole in one leg. Based on Unilocal,I took the pantsuit to Sima for help. She was amazing. She stretched the fabric so she would have enough fabric to hem the pants evenly, patched the hole and when she was done you could not even see the damage that had been done. I will never use another tailor. I trust her work completely!

Sima is a terrific seamstress and tailor. Beautiful work and detail. She helps make my clothes look so much better than they sometimes do straight off the rack. She is also very talented at making clothes to order.

GREAT WORK. I am so pleased with all the work Sima did for me. This is old school quality work. Not cheap, but fair price for the quality. I don’t go anywhere else now.

What can I say… Sima knows exactly what she’s doing. She did a fantastic job with all my clothing. I had my pant legs taken in, as well as the standard hem. The sleeves on my dress shirts were taken in. She also altered my suit jacket. I saw other smiling customers leave with jackets, pants, dresses — you name it. I’m not sure if there is anything she can’t alter.
She’s the sweetest lady — personable and often times, hilarious. I’m glad I found her shop. I will be taking all my alterations needs to her from now on.
Thanks, Sima!

This place is amazing. I needed a leather jacket altered and knowing it needed to be done right the first time I turned to Unilocal.Sima came highly recommended (5 stars) so I decided to give her a try. My leather jacket could not have been in better hands!
Sima did an amazing job with my jacket; so good one could never tell it had any work done. She was very personable and friendly and made me feel right at home. The work was completed on time and the price was fair.
If you want it done right, done really well and at a fair price, go see Sima. You won’t regret it!