At LookSmart Shirley, Christchurch our tailors will modify, restyle, rework, repair, and alter your suits, skirts, dresses, and other store-bought pieces and garments according to your unique body shape, preferences, and specifications.

Visit us at near Woolworths in The Palms Shopping Centre, and we’ll take accurate measurements, perform fittings, alter your piece at all the right corners, and give you style advice on which adjustments should bring out the best fit.

We will make proper adjustments to your dress or suit to achieve your desired fit and complement your measurements and body shape. With a tailor, you don’t need to throw away pre-loved garments or brand-new suits that don’t match your fit. Entrust them to us, and walk home wearing your tailor-fitted garments elegantly and confidently.

Feel free to wear work clothes or daily casuals when visiting us for fitting and alterations. We are located near Woolworths in The Palms Shopping Centre, Shirley, Chirstchurch, so you can simply head to us after shopping from your favourite fashion retailer.

Moreover, you can also bring the footwear and shapewear that you plan to wear with your outfit. This helps our master tailors in Shirley take the perfect lengths and give you a peek of how the style will look once alterations are finished.

Quick alterations like hemming the sleeves and shortening lengths can take roughly an hour up to 24 hours to complete. Larger jobs like bulk alterations and complete restyle will take longer, depending on our capacity and number of ongoing jobs. That includes altering multiple suits and fitting out wedding entourages with bespoke tailoring.

At LookSmart Shirley, we’ll cater last-minute wardrobe preparations and fitting adjustments, especially for your upcoming business presentation, university report, or OOTD for a sightseeing date at the Art Gallery, Botanic Gardens, or Museum, or just to alter a beloved piece you got from fashion retailers like H&M, Zara, Connor or Famers.

The alteration cost will depend on the condition of your piece as well as the alteration requests and overall complexity of the job. The following factors affect the cost of altering and repairing your clothes:

Type of Alterations
Basic alterations such as hemming and shortening costs less and can be finished faster than complete restyles, resizing, letting out, and lengthening.

Number of Alteration Jobs
Jobs that require more alterations often takes more time and work to achieve the best result and desired fit. Those include taking in a dress and shortening its sleeves or letting out a suit and lengthening it at the same time.

Condition and Age
Newly bought pieces for resizing are easier to work with than heavily worn-out and old or antique suits. Besides, repairing old fabric from tears, rips, and holes may require more careful attention and invisible than patching new garments with easy-to-source materials.

Fabric Type
Versatile materials such as wool, linen, cotton, and polyesters are easier to work with due to the material’s resilience and our accumulated experience working with them. On the other hand, Delicate fabrics will need a more intricate and careful touch, like working with chiffon, cashmere, and silk.

Extra Details
Stylish flair and details like custom embroidery, artistic beadings, and tulle fabric can improve the style and look of your piece. You can request our team to add extra details that you want for an extra cost.

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 Shirley work with hemming, altering, and repairing suits and dresses tailored for every occasion.

Yes! There’s no need to discard pre-loved pieces and high-quality garments just because they no longer fit you. Besides, we believe that your clothes should fit your body, and not the other way around.

With our Shirley tailors, you can walk home with a custom-fitted suit and dress showcasing your look and fit. We’ve worked with bulk alterations and bespoke fitting for off-the-rack suits for wedding, corporate presentation, and dinner events, leaving a lasting impression with your date.

LookSmart Alterations doesn’t stop with suit hemming and adjusting. Our clients have unique preferences and, therefore, different fitting needs. If your suit is too tight, loose, short, or bland to stand out, we’ll fix it even if it requires multiple jobs at once.

Our in-house stylists provide style advice on achieving your desired fit and giving a lasting impression and well-executed style wherever you go.

At LookSmart Shirley, you can experience professional alterations for the following:

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

You can also try our dry cleaning services. 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.

All alterations and repairs are executed with minimal seams and near-zero imperfections that you won’t notice the slightest traces of repairs and alterations! We pay attention to detail to create a seamless masterpiece that boosts your confidence and makes you look your best!

By choosing LookSmart Alterations for your repair and tailor needs, your pre-loved and off-the-rack clothes gets that extra TLC so you feel confident in your own skin. No seams, no loose threads, no imperfections, just exquisite craftsmanship, that’s the LookSmart difference!

In an invisible mending, our master tailors will take individual threads from the fabric’s unseen interior and meticulously reweave them to the damaged areas, leaving a seamless finish.

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.

At LookSmart, we are expert dry cleaner specialise in handling delicate fabrics such as silk,velvet, satin, cashmere, suede, and wool, ensuring no risk of shrinkage and stretching so your garment stays fresh and vibrant. Entrust your valuable garments to us and pick them up good as new.

Our services at Looksmart Shirley maintain a stellar reputation among first-time and repeat customers. We take pride in our craft through high-quality work and exceptional service, providing our customers with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. At Looksmart, we provide a quadruple guarantee on all your garments and alterations.

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.