Alteration Concept

I had a great experience, they took their time with the fitting and made sure I was happy with the alterations when I tried them on for pick-​up. Reasonable prices, will definitely be back!

This review is LONG overdue. The last job I had done here was about 5 months ago. The quality of work is amazing. However, what I like the most was the honesty and service. Let me explain… I first brought over a sports jacket. I wanted the sleeves to be a bit higher so that I could show my watch. I put the jacket on and the tailor insisted on not altering it. He believed that if I were to heighten the sleeves, then I would need to do the same with the bottom of the jacket. Now while that may look nice and fit to the naked eye, the tailor insisted that it would just look cheap on me, regardless of how well the alteration would be. He was very confident in his work and insisted that it wouldn’t be a smart idea to tailor that specific jacket. He even said that any tailor would do it for the money, but that making his customers happy and confident with their tailoring was more important than getting paid to alter something he didn’t believe in. I admired his genuine honesty and didn’t tailor the jacket. A few weeks later, I came in with a suit from JCrew. BOY, I was glad. The alterations were perfect. I have the pants brought slightly up. I cut a bit off of the sleeve. The tailoring added that extra dense of «dapper». I would recommend this place to anyone. The price is expected, considering you’re in the west village area. Any other place is going to gouge you on alterations. If you’re going to spend that money, at least spend it on a tailor who is genuine and great at what he does.

This is this most bizarre tailoring experience I had. I usually get my items fitted at Saks’s alteration services. This time, I came here after getting a recommendation from Club Monaco down the street. To my dismay, I entered into a dark underground cellar. I could not be even making this up. Next thing I know, two male tailors come in to examine my garment that I tried on, one young one old, both smelling like cigarette smoke. For my tailored pants, while pinning, they had touched me repeatedly in uncomfortable places. «This could not be real,» I thought. I froze and didn’t know how to react, assumed it was part of the profession. The tailors were condescending throughout, even more so as I was speechless now. I hurried to finish, and they proceed to quote me an exorbitant price, comparable to the Saks prices I had. Super bizarre. I asked if they had any pricing sheets — he utters something like that they just «lost» the price sheet. I asked if there is a guarantee on the service, which is a normal insurance to make sure the garment fits ok after, and he proceeds to laugh, saying they are not professional tailors. This is getting way too bizarre, I quickly fled and will never return.

Quality alterations, however the tailor has a terrible attitude which is really a shame.

I recently went in to Alteration Concept off Perry Ave to have a tuxedo altered. I came in quite cheerfully and was greeted by a very obviously grumpy tailor. I thought it was odd, but went ahead with changing into the tux to be measured. During the measuring, the tailor was extremely rude and had a very bad attitude. I normally can tolerate some level of poor customer service, but this exceeded even my threshold. I respectfully told the tailor that I would like to stop and I changed back into my clothes and left. The tailor did offer an apology as I was leaving, but it was too late, the damage had been done. Luckily, I didn’t give this company any money, but I did waste time. Do yourself a favor and don’t waste your time. Learn from my experience and take your business elsewhere. There are tons of tailors in the area and I am willing to bet that ALL of them are better than this one.

Fast, reliable, and detail-​oriented. Chung asked questions about how I needed the tailoring done that would have never even occurred to me. I highly recommend this place!