Tailors restyle, remodel, modify, and improve your dresses and suits to fit your shape and match your preferences. Our expert tailors in Mount Maunganui, Tauranga will take your measurements, discuss your specifications and requests, and make necessary adjustments to achieve your desired fit. We transform store-bought suits into tailor-fitted outfits that emphasise your best features and make you feel comfortable and move easily in your own skin. Choose from our range of alteration services with a bespoke appeal and quality from pre-loved clothes. After taking your measurements during the initial fitting, we’ll meticulously make necessary adjustments to your clothes with a fast turnaround. Why throw away used dresses and give up on suits of the wrong fit? Our tailors can restore them to their best quality and tailor-fit to your size.

When you visit us at our shop in Bayfair, Mount Maunganui for an initial fitting or suit alteration, we recommend bringing the footwear you plan on wearing with the outfit. While we can also take accurate measurements on baggy clothes and everyday casuals, our master tailors recommend wearing a dress shirt or the appropriate shapewear that goes with your suit, dress, or garments above the waist. Wearing garments that match the outfit helps us measure the perfect lengths and fit. Once alterations are made, you also get a good look at the outfit.

The time it takes to alter, restyle, or dry clean a suit or garment depends on the complexity of the adjustments and a few other relevant factors. However, most simple alterations, are completed within 24 hours. Our quick turnaround ensures that we’ve covered your style, whether you’re running last-minute outfit preps for a date, a night out at in the city, or a work gathering. Visit us at in Bayfair Shopping Centre or contact us on (07) 575 6285, to learn more about our turnaround times. Note that larger tasks and bulk alterations often take longer, particularly in peak wedding seasons and the year-end rush.

We’ll first evaluate the suit’s overall condition and discuss your special requests before we can provide a quote. Our alteration costs depend on the following factors:

Type of Alteration
Altering a wedding dress or multi-piece suit should take longer and more work than tailor-fitting and modifying casual garments such as pants, jackets, and casual outfits. Moreover, taking in and shortening the clothes is easier than lengthening or letting them out.

Number of Alteration Jobs
An alteration that only requires hemming or shortening will cost less and has a faster turnaround than a job that requires multiple refits and adjustments to achieve your desired fit.

Condition and Age
A suit’s age and condition also affect the cost of repair. Simply put, heavily worn-out clothes that are ripped, torn, and have holes will undergo invisible mending, a meticulous process that leaves a perfect finish.

Fabric Type
The pattern and fabric material used in your suit will also depend on how easy or difficult it is to alter it to your size. Premium and delicate fabrics such as silk and lace are fragile and will require careful alteration from our expert tailors compared to other materials.

Extra Details
Unique details, popping highlights, and embroidery enhance the overall look of your suit or dress. Visit our North Lakes shop today and let us know if you want extra details sewn into your outfit.

Seamstresses sew clothes, dresses, and garments for a living. On the other hand, a tailor restyles, fits, remodels, and alters a suit or outfit to a customer’s body shape and preferences in style or comfort. Our expert tailors in Mount Maunganui work with hemming, altering, and repairing suits and dresses tailored for every occasion.

Definitely! Your clothes are meant to fit your body shape, and not vice versa. At LookSmart, our experienced tailors will determine the necessary alterations to turn your off-the-rack suit into the perfect outfit for every occasion. Every customer has a unique style need and specifications, and it’s our commitment to adhere to these preferences and ensure no suit is too tight, loose, or dull for your taste. Looking for stylists? We got you! Visit us for an initial fitting, leave your garments to us, and pick them up the next day, style-ready for the day. If you’re looking for style advice, we’ll gladly provide expert feedback on achieving comfortable and stylish looks that make a lasting impression wherever life brings you.

Regardless of your style, occasion, repair or alteration needs, you can rest assured that your suit and clothes are in the care of New Zealand’s biggest team of expert tailors.

Our range of services includes the following:

• Bespoke tailoring
• Clothing alterations
• Wedding dress alterations
• Suit alterations
• Invisible mending for a seamless finish

We also dry clean all your garments at an additional cost, so you’re clothes are ready to wear when you them pick up from our store.

Visible seams and loose threads are indicators of hasty and poor craftsmanship. Our Mount Maunganui master tailors will restyle and alter suits and dresses with seamless outputs with no signs of repair. Look stylish and feel confident in your own skin with your pre-loved and store-bought clothes professionally altered to enhance your shape and conceal trouble areas. When your suit needs repair due to tears, rips, or holes, we provide invisible mending services in Mount Maunganui. This method uses individual threads from the garment’s interior and carefully rewoven to the damaged areas.

After altering and tailor-fitting your suits to your size, we can dry clean your garments (with an additional cost) so it’s ready to be worn as soon as you claim it back. More delicate materials such as suede, silk, satin, velvet, premium wood, and cashmere are handled carefully by our expert dry cleaner, dry-cleaned fresh and pristine. Entrust your valuable garments to us and pick them up good as new.

LookSmart Alterations maintains an excellent reputation among first-time and repeat customers in New Zealand. We take pride in our craft and the results we produce with years of experience. We provide high-quality work and exceptional customer service and guarantee our clients 100% satisfaction. At LookSmart, we give a quadruple guarantee on all your garments and alterations.

Re-alteration Guarantee: If you’re unsatisfied with the alteration, we’ll redo the job for free. If we cannot finish re-altering it within the day, we’ll deliver it to your address for free. All our hems are guaranteed for the life of the garment.

100% Money Back Guarantee: If you’re still unhappy with the re-alteration, we will refund 100% of the cost.

Competitor Guarantee: Still not satisfied? We will pay a different tailor of your choice to alter, not exceeding our prices.

Damaged Garment Guarantee: If your clothes get lost or damaged during alteration and 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.