George’s Expert Tailoring & Cleaning

I was excited to have a tailor close to my home and figured I’d give them a shot with tapering a pair of my jeans. Dropped the jeans off on a Thursday and was told to return on Saturday to pick them up. 12 $ was the cost I was quoted. I figured that seemed a bit low, but I left and let the young lady behind the counter do her thing.
When I returned to pick up the jeans on Saturday I was greeted by the same woman. She was very pleasant and she remembered my face which was nice.
The job that was done on the jeans, however, was not so nice. Whoever altered these pants must have gotten their instructions from a YouTube video. The outer hem of the jeans, where the front and back of the leg comes together on the outside, looked as though a curved line was sewn in and the excess fabric was just lopped off with a pair of pinking shears. Now, I’m not a tailor, but it is my understanding that when tapering jeans you should do so from the INSEAM. Also, it would be nice if the edges of the taper were properly serged instead of just cut to fray with pinking shears.
The ankle hem of the both legs was not taken out before this alteration was done and neither the outer leg hem or the ankle hem were finished at all. As a result when you turn up the cuffs of the jean the hem looks sloppy and pulls away from the cuff. This could have been easily remedied if the thread at the bottom of the jeans was removed, unrolled and then re-​sewn once the alteration was complete. The jeans are less then two months old and since I roll up the cuffs there is absolutely no wear on the existing hem.
This doesn’t look like ‘expert’ tailoring in the slightest. It looks like someone did a rush job. I didn’t ask them to do a rush job, nor did I ask them to quote me a low price. I would have gladly paid double or triple what I did and left the jeans for a week or longer in order to have them altered correctly. Now I have to either pay to get this fixed properly or I have to scrap the jeans.
I’m disappointed and I hope that there is a way to get this taken care of. In the grand scheme of things it’s only a minor inconvenience on my part, but if it were a major article of clothing like a wedding dress or a suit then I’d really be hard pressed to get the situation remedied immediately.

Haven’t had any dry cleaning done, but I have brought some things in to be repaired. All the repairs have been well done and done quickly, too. The people have been nice and seem eager to please. Plus — the prices are great! Replaced a zipper, buttons, and hooks on a pair of work pants for about $ 12 — definitely cheaper than going out and buying a whole new pair!
It’s a quiet little store, with not the greatest parking situation, but definitely one of my most reliable neighborhood shops.