At LookSmart Alterations Hornby, our tailors specialise in altering and mending garments like dresses, wedding attires, and business outfits to ensure they fit your unique body shape and size perfectly. Visit us at The Hub Hornby and we’ll take your measurements and give you styling advice to ensure you achieve the ideal fit for your daily work or a special occasion. Check and review our all-inclusive selection of formal and casual attire tailoring and sewing services to make your clothes look new again with a great fit. Let us take your measurements and our stylist tailors will skillfully make the necessary adjustments and transform your off-the-rack clothes into a tailor-fitted masterpiece.

Feel free to visit us at The Hub Hornby wearing your everyday work clothes or casuals. We can take your measurements accurately with no problem, but it would be advisable to wear the dress shirt or shapewear you plan to complement the suit or dress. That way, we can take the most accurate measurements and lengths. You can also bring the shoes/footwear that goes with your outfit so we can take accurate measurements for your trousers, skirts, and pants. While this is only optional, it helps you take a better look at how everything should fit together once alterations are finished.

LookSmart Alterations focuses on delivering timely and efficient service for all our tailoring and alterations. Most basic jobs have a 24-hour turnaround, while more complex alterations and custom tailor-fitting may take a bit longer depending on the complexity of the job and the shop’s current capacity. Our tailors are highly qualified and work hard to make sure the quality isn’t neglected in an effort to stay on schedule for our customers.

The cost of your repairs and/or alterations will largely depend on the garment’s overall condition, the alteration requests, and overall complexity of the job. The following factors affect the cost of alteration:

Type of Alterations
Quick alterations like basic hemming and shortening should cost less and has a faster turnaround than complete restyles, resizing, letting out, and lengthening.

Number of Alteration Jobs
Requests that will need several alteration tasks may take more time and work to achieve, like taking in a dress and shortening its sleeves or letting out a suit and lengthening it at the same time.

Condition and Age
Brand new pieces are often easier to work with and alter than heavily worn-out garments and dresses. Repairing older pieces may also need more attention and work than patching up newer clothes with easier-to-source fabrics.

Fabric Type
Premium fabrics that often need invisible repair often cost more as we’ll need to source the same material. Versatile materials are also easier to work with due to their versatility and workable properties than sensitive fabrics like chiffon, cashmere, velvet, and silk.

Extra Details
Adding a custom flair embroidery, artistic beadings, and tulle fabric can significantly up the style and overall fit of the piece as these details add curves and shapes that influence your overall look. You can request our team to add extra details that you want for an extra cost.

Seamstresses mostly work on creating custom clothes and suits from scratch using templates, measurements, and unique client specifications. Tailors, on the other hand, focus on altering, fixing, repairing, and enhancing a garment’s look and feel depending on the needs of the client. Both of them have unique responsibilities and tasks in key areas, but they both share expertise in creating, altering, and repairing clothes.

Certainly! Our LookSmart Alterations store in Hornby will restyle and tailor-fit pre-owned and off the rack shirts, jackets, pants into a unique piece of clothing that fits your specifications and measurements. Simply visit us at The Hub Hornby and have our expert tailors take your exact measurements and make the required alterations to ensure a perfect fit. Just bring your business outfits and trousers to our shop and let our team of expert stylists do their job at extending the life of your garments with us.

At LookSmart Hornby, we offer alterations services for the following needs:

• Bespoke tailoring and repair for suits and dresses
• Garment alterations and repairs
• Wedding dress & suit alterations
• Clothing alterations for your everyday casuals

You can also pay extra to include dry cleaning services on top of your alterations and repairs. Simply request for us to dry clean the garments after alteration for an extra fee so you’re ready to wear them as soon as you pick them up.

Maintaining a high level of performance and trust across our 120+ stores require a keen attention to detail. All of our tailors and seamstresses across our shops ensure that we provide results with no visible seams or alterations, nothing but amazing work. With our invisible repairs service, we carefully take individual threads from the clothing’s interior and carefully reweave them to the damage areas, ensuring a near-perfect patchwork with no visible seams.

Definitely! You can ask our staff to add dry cleaning for your alterations and pay an additional fee for the dry cleaning services. This ensures that your casual clothing is in fresh and pristine condition, ready to be worn as soon as you pick it up.

At LookSmart The Hub Hornby, we pride ourselves on providing exceptional service to first-time and repeat customers. We keep up with the festivities and vibrant celebrations in Hornby and Christchurch by keeping our shop ready to serve you. Our quadruple guarantee on all garments, hems, and alterations ensures amazing service and 100% satisfaction. Re-alteration Guarantee: If you’re not happy with the results of the alteration, we’ll repair it on the spot for free. If it’s impossible to finish the job within the day, we’ll send your suit to your address at no extra cost. All our hems are guaranteed for the life of the garment. 100% Money Back Guarantee: We will refund the full cost if you’re still unsatisfied after the redo. Competitor Guarantee: Still not satisfied? We will pay for your garment to be altered by another tailor or suit shop of your choice, not exceeding our prices. Damaged Garment Guarantee: In the unlikely event that your clothes get damaged during alteration or get lost while in our store, we will reimburse the amount presented with the garment’s receipt or the fair value. Note that claims against these guarantees must be presented within 4 weeks from the date of receipt.