What Can a Tailor do for Women (2024)

Tailoring can break or make a garment. Regardless of your size or body type, a tailor is able to carry out proper alterations that can get mediocre unfitting or fitting items into clothes that will not only flatter your shape but boost your self-confidence as well. If you are a woman who must adorn special sizes, alterations are overtly critical. The good thing is you do not need to be skilled with the needle, an expert seamstress or a perfect sew because with the right tailor you can have every change or alteration you want on your dress, coat, shirt, suit, skirt and other garments done perfectly for you. The right tailor can do the following and much more for a woman, no matter what alteration requirements she might have.

Dress

If you have come across a vibrant dress but designed for a different height frame from yours, a couple of alterations need to be made. Essentially, the tailor can do a lot to the dress, such as narrowing the shoulder and neck opening width, lift the neckline or add darts and even add a new seam down towards the middle of the front part and reattach a trim.
The armholes can also be resized as a skirt is detached from the dress for the waistline to be raised as the back zipper is redone. It is also possible for the waist to be lifted just by raising the shoulder straps in case the area is already fitting well. Along the sides a take-in can be done as pockets are recreated, perhaps lost as the slimming was taking place. The length of the hem can also be altered without a problem.
No matter what you would like altered in a dress, you only need to talk with the tailor who might even surprise you with more alterations you probably had no idea could be done. Once your dress is custom tailored to perfections you can have our dress cleaning department professionally clean your dress or wedding gown and preserve it in one of our dress preservation boxes.

Skirt

As the months get warmer or not a skirt is always a very vital piece for every woman. To perfect that skirt you love but for one reason or the other is not fitting as you would like, a tailor can do a number of things for you.
It is possible for the skirt to be hemmed up, waist adjusted, adjusting of the vent, sewing the skirt completely or having it partially closed. For those who are short, hemming a skirt is non-negotiable. Before the hem is finished, a fitting is required particularly if the fabric will be cut and you must be comfortable with the basted length of the hem.
The waist of the skirt can be taken in towards getting that perfect fit you want. Elastic waists are stretchy and have to be pulled tight if it is to stay put. If it is not taken in sufficiently the waistband will keep slipping down. Remember no matter what kind of alteration you want on your skirt, whether it is for professional wear, formal or casual wear, you can always get basic alterations to total restyles. Think of a wardrobe that is specifically made to fit your body!

Suits

An experienced suit tailor is always ready with all the options available for you when you want a made-to measure suit fit for a woman. At first, you get to select the style you want such as a regular, classic or slim fit. With all the personalization you should feel safe in the fact that the suit made will be your own.
So what can the tailor do for a woman in matters to do with a suit? The tailor will help with choice of the edge stitching as well as thread color, contrasting interior lining, internal lapel that is padded, shaped waist, unique buttons, real opening cuffs, addition of pocket flaps that can be worn hidden, contrast thread color and creating the vent of your choice, which can be a center vent, side vent or zero vent.
You can also be sure of a contrast lining towards the back if the needs be. The tailor is also able to come up with a skirt, high waist trouser or hipster or all of them in case that is what you would like to complete your suit. Both the hipster trouser and high waist trouser can be completed with any of the many pocket styles available, unique choice of stitching you would like, different pocket linings and waistbands, diverse zip fastening options and either have then fully lined or half lined.
On the other hand, the skirt that completes the upper part of the female suit can be done with any of the available waistbands you would like as well as the stitching you love before it’s lined as standard. At the end of the day, you will have a suit that is like no other out there. In case of any alteration the tailor will also be happy to do it so that you can feel great wearing something that fits you well and boosts your self esteem.

Shirts

There are so many areas a tailor can touch and perfect a woman’s shirt. The front part of the shirt is everything and a lot of things can be done on it. This includes adding the finest inlay materials for the cuffs and collars, fine stitching carried out with a number of stitches for every centimeter for the collar, a sleeve and yoke pattern match, adding a side seam gusset and a back tail that is a little longer.
The tailor can also add some monogramming on the top front middle part of the female shirt including going for a great choice of the highest quality of buttons stitched on using cross stitches as well as adding button holes of the highest quality.
The back of the female shirt can also be added with a split yoke enhanced with a matching pattern depending on the choice of the woman as the side seams are single needled and a fine hem seam perfectly done. A sleeve vent can also be added with a button closing as well as a pattern match. A comfortable basic block around the back can also be done, which comes with diverse alteration possibilities.

Jacket/coat

Whether it is a made to measure female coat or some alterations a good tailor can do wonders on it. A made to measure coat can be made with an open front or concealed front, the lapel width can be selected as the interior is padded. You can also get to choose the pocket styles the tailor is to work on, including the choice of stitching. It’s also possible to request horn buttons on the coat, real opening cuffs, and a length made to your specifications including a variable vent length. This is what makes a coat that is just yours!
An alteration on a jacket or coat is also something a great tailor will be delighted in doing for you. The collar and sleeves of a jacket can be detached before the whole torso is raised by the line of the shoulder. This can make the armholes to shift upwards as the length is cropped, carried out without chopping off the fabric around the bottom or making the spacing beneath the pockets and buttons to look odd. Once a tailor is done altering your favourite coat or jacket, we also specialize in leather cleaning, which will help restore your favourite coat or jacket and make it look new.
In short, the tailor can narrow the shoulders of your favorite jacket, decrease shoulder epaulettes, slim across the sleeve length before raising the armholes and shortening sleeves, reattaching and detaching buckle straps. Essentially, the alterations by the tailor are to make the jacket just like you envisioned.

Fashion restyling

If you have fabulous old fashioned, vintage or outdated garments and would like them to be brought back to life, the tailor will gladly do this for you. This can be decreasing a dress’ size or just make it just slightly smaller, replace the zipper and let out or take in every seam of a dress.
In a nutshell, woman can request such alterations from the tailor as:

• Creation of side vents or center vent on a jacket
• Patching up of tears and holes in pants and jackets
• Making of faux or real buttonholes on the sleeves of a jacket
• Pleats removal from slacks or pants
• Raising or lowering coats or jackets armholes
• Replacement of leather, velvet or suede elbow patches
• Shortening coat sleeves from the entire length or shoulder of a jacket
• Altering the factory original hems on jeans and pants
• Replacement and repair of all kinds of pant and coat linings, pockets and zippers
• Taking in of the jeans waistbands for those with smaller waists
• Taking in the body of a shirt, dress or jacket
• Hem coats, dresses and skirts
• Shortening sleeves
• Addition of a hidden snap in case of a gaping blouse
• Addition of a little strap or snap for bra straps, which is a standard for most vintage dresses