Squire Tailoring

My heart is broken. My family and I have been going to Squire Tailors since … could it be 1970. Over the years, everyone in the shop has been friendly, fun, brilliant tailors (suits, wedding dresses, prom dresses, pants, jackets, zippers,…everything), teachers of Italian, (sono bella, il più meraviglioso), virtual tour guides to Italy, and such caring people. Now, they have retired; the store is closed. Li mancherò, gente meravigliosa. I will miss you, wonderful people. Remember me. I remember you. I was the person you called your… «six-​star customer».

I purchased a beautiful pair of Fidelity denim from Jeans and a Cute Top Shop and had them hemmed at Squire. Let’s just say someone forgot to remove the pins and I pricked myself badly. I will be taking my business elsewhere…

I imagine that this is the tailors that the Corleone’s would have used to get the bullet holes out of their suits.
The elderly Italian gentlemen that run this business barely speak English even though I know they’ve been in the country longer than I’ve been alive (30 years). However, the language of clothes is global.
As the previous reviewer stated it is not the most organized place but, the customer area and changing rooms are spotless. They’ve never misplaced an order of mine so I could careless how unorganized there work area is as long as it doesn’t affect me as the customer.
I’ve used them mostly for suit alterations and occasionally a coat or shirt but my mother uses them for everything. They do a good job on both men’s and women’s clothing.
They may cost more than your cleaners or dept. stores (I don’t use other places so I’m not sure) but for the quality I’ve received I would happily pay more if needed.

I feel like this is your stereotypical tailor. A small, slightly unkempt store, two older, dapper foreign gentlemen, and the tools of the trade clearly visible. While one helped me get sleeves shortened on a suit coat, the other was working on alterations just a few feet away. Kind of a cool vibe. I have family members that have used this tailor several times — it came recommended to us by someone… can’t remember who… might even have been a Nordstrom sales person (yet another reason to love Nordstrom) and it was described to me as «not the cleanest» and maybe even smelling of smoke. The store does has a scent to it. Not sure if it’s smoke, or dry cleaning solvent, or hot irons, or what.
My jacket sleeves were $ 20 — I have no idea what this should cost, but it would have been more had I taken it back to where I bought it, I’m pretty sure. There were unable (or unwilling) to attempt to lengthen the sleeves on a top coat with working buttons. I can’t hold that against them, as logic tells me that if you rolled the hem out on the sleeves, the buttons and button holes wouldn’t line up any more, and you can’t exactly remove a button hole. This is what I get for buying nice things. Anyway, picked up the jacket a week later, and the work was fine. I mean, it wasn’t anything too difficult, but they did a good job at it. My jacket does have a little bit of a smell to it after being in the shop… again, I don’t think it’s smoke, but it’s not pleasant. Hopefully it will air out a bit.
One note — cash or check only. Sigh. How many times have I said it — Charge me more to cover the transaction fee and get a credit card machine. They’re lucky I had cash — I almost never do.