Silvia’s Alterations

Better late than never, but I just wanna say that Silvia was a dream to work with for my wedding! Skilled, patient, and professional, she listened to my requests/​concerns while also using her expertise to make her own suggestions. Despite the simplicity of my J. Crew wedding dress, I knew the alterations would have to be absolutely immaculate, due to the nature of the fabric. I could not have been happier with the result! She created a custom bustle, which was not included in the dress, and found a creative way to actually build a bra into the dress. There were also some seams on the dress that I didn’t particularly like. I mentioned it once, and she was able to make them invisible! I don’t even know how she did it! Even though there are no more wedding dresses in my future, I know I’ll be going back to her for all my needs. Thanks so much, Silvia!

Love this place. I have been here a couple times for different items to be repaired or altered. They take pride in their work and want every item to get done right. Easy or difficult they do a great job. Extremely reasonable pricing too.

Silvia did a wonderful job altering my mother’s 30-​year-​old wedding dress, which I wore for my own wedding this past October. The dress required a significant amount of work, but Silvia was able to get the dress done in time, and it turned out beautifully. I received many compliments on the dress. I highly recommend Silvia. She and her daughter are both very nice.

Honest and very capable. She let out a bridesmaid dress for me and it turned out beautiful.

THE BEST SEAMSTRESS EVER! I have traveled all over the world and have had different dresses and coats fitted in at least 6 different states and 2 countries… Slyvia is hands down, the best. I will say, she really knows what she is doing when it comes to fitting the waist and bust in women’s dresses. She knows just where to pull so you maximize support without being squished or flattened or having those bulges. She understands every woman’s feminine figure and knows how to make things fit and flatter. I will try to have ALL my dresses altered by her before I leave Monterey because I know it may be several years before I find a seamstress of her caliber. Also, her prices are reasonable and she is very personable and sweet.

I’ve gone to Silvia’s about three or four times. Every time she does an amazing job! Her pricing is also very reasonable too :)

Sylvia’s was fast professional and excellent. The customer service was very good. I gave Sylvia’s five stars because the alterations done on my dress and blanket were high quality and met my needs. If you need anything done and you need it done more rapidly they also have expressed service for an additional small fee.

I recommend Silvia’s Alterations, she has altered business shirts and jackets for me that I get many compliments, on a regular basis. I found Silvia’s by Mistake about 3 years ago and have been a loyal client , been going ever since. Thanks for the great work giving me professional business advantage in development meetings.

The fitting was done very quickly and Silvia gave great advice on how the dress could fit better. The alterations were done in a week, everything came out looking great. To get the dress fitted in the torso and shorted 3 inches cost me only $ 26.

I had to bring in a dress to be shortened and needed it by the end of the week. They promised for it to be ready by Friday 10am and it was done early on Thursday afternoon and I was able to pick it up. I definitely have to say, fast and great service. They went beyond their service and even steam iron my dress even though steam ironing wasn’t part of the package. Thank you!

Took in the simplest of items-​2 shirts both needed a single buttonhole placed under the collar. Having been a former professional seamstress myself I know how fast and easy this task is. Alas, I no longer have a sewing machine so I thought I would try this place.
Apparently what used to take me 20 minutes to do Sylvia could not to in 2 days. I ended up picking up the shirts without the work done and taking them to a place that heard my dilemma and had them done by the end of the day.
I won’t waste time using this place again!

Silvia is a genius. I dropt some pounds before the wedding and my dress really didn’t fit anymore. She is awesome.

I bring EVERYTHING to Silvia. Suits, dress shirts, pants, casual, she even put a silk liner in a purse! Better prices than the department stores charge and convenient!

This is the best alteration place I have ever been to. Sylvia listened to everything I needed done on my wedding dress. She did it beautifully and in a short amount of time. I also took my moms dress there to get it fixed and it looked amazing when it was done. There isn’t anyone else I would have trusted with my wedding dress. Her love for her job transcends into her alterations. She is amazingly talented and very very reasonable. Sylvia is trustworthy and very reliable I will always recommend her.

Silvia did a fab job hemming my silk chiffon dress. She surged the end which made the hem much cleaner and more sealed than it was before she touched it. Her measurement tactic is very skillful and resulted in a very straight hemline for my dress. She is very skilled and has many machines to use depending on the fabric she works with. She is also a very sweet lady and dedicated to her customers.

Silvia did a great job hemming and tapering my suit pants and adjusting my jacket. She’s very helpful and patient. They finished my suit within a couple of days with the rush order.

Absolutely amazing! She did a rush order for my lace bolero jacket. She made it fit better than I ever though imaginable!

I used Sylvia for my wedding dress and I am so thankful I made the right choice! She did such a fantastic job!
She designed and made me a jacket for my reception that was amazing! She worked soo hard and added so much detail to the thing. OMG!
I loved working with Sylvia because she was so cute. She was so excited for me and the wedding. I went back a few times to make sure the dress was perfect, and each time we found just a simple thing to fix, only because for Sylvia, it was such an art and wanted to make the perfect masterpiece!
Thank you Sylvia! You and your team did a fantastic job!

I was in such a pickle after the idiots at Men’s Wearhouse screwed up my new suit (with their lazy tailoring shortcuts) that I entered a semi-​panicked state of mind. I was out of time to tailor a new suit since the wedding was only less than a week away. I was also new to this town so I didn’t really know all the businesses available and didn’t know enough «ins» to request a last minute 007 job. Not to mention, I didn’t want to use any of my other de-​virginized tailored suits for the wedding. It should be brand-​spanking new yeah?
What could a panicked man then do at this point in time?
Enter sweet Silvia.
Silvia is a sweet middle-​aged Latina who genuinely cares about her line of work as well as her customers. She was already working with my lady to make the necessary adjustments on her dress and was also tailoring a laced wedding jacket from scratch for her to use at the reception. She was also the lady that did all the alterations on our friend’s dress who tied the knot last year so she had already proved her exceptional skills with alterations.
When I came to her in panic and asked if she could pull of a miracle for me, she gave me a reassuring smile that she would do anything to help my lady and I to have a perfect wedding. I told her that she had three days to work on my suit and said that price was not an issue at all — since I was already desperate to begin with. (I found out later that a rush job was only an additional $ 20. I’d say that is really cheap when it came to «saving a life», lol.)
She asked me to put the suit on so that she could take a look at what had happened and her reaction… was…PRICELESS. If you are a fan of recent GEICO commercials, she had the same groan as the architect of the pyramids Geico commercial. I found it EPICALLY cute and funny. Yet, that also goes to show that the binder clip crap Men’s Wearhouse did with the suit was complete blasphemy.
She went to work on it immediately — undoing the heretical threading through the night and had me in by the morning to do the proper measurements. Yeah, she pretty much got my suit back to the drawing board. Second day, I was all measured and she went back to working on the suit. Third day, I came back for post-​alterations fitting for last minute adjustments. She adjusted according and asked me to come back in the afternoon. I did a final fitting before she sent the suit to be pressed.
All I can say is that I’m absolutely thankful for Silvia. She really resurrected my suit after them «Roman Soldiers» at Men’s Wearhouse crucified it earlier. Do you want to know how many people asked about my suit that day and how I got the tailoring to be perfect? ENOUGH people to remind me that I know what I’m talking about when it comes to suits unlike those dolts at Men’s Wearhouse. (/​end rant).
Definitely recommend!!!
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Silvia was excellent. I went in to get my wedding dress altered. It was a very elegant dress with a ton of precisely placed beadwork (as soon as I get the wedding pics back I’ll post them).
She did wonders for the dress and made the dress look even better than I had imagined. She was able to alter things just right so as to detract from the parts of my figure I like the least (my cursed pooch!!!)
When she was done every bead was put back in its correct place (i was thoroughly impressed!!! i cant imagine the time it took her to do it. The hemming was great and the bustle worked perfectly.
I went in for three alterations and on my second one, she fixed any and all issues I had with the initial alteration.
She seems to be the type of person who wants your clothes to work with you. In another review someone brought up a hemming issue. Did you mention it to her? I’m sure she would’ve fixed it had she known it was not to you liking… She was so accommodating with all of my suggestions I can’t imagine she would have done otherwise had she known there was an issue.
Anyway… Thank you, Sylvia! You are great! I’m definitely taking any future alterations there!