The Most Trusted Tailor Melbourne Has To Offer

Our Melbourne expert tailors modify, repair, and alter your garments according to your unique body shape, preferences, and specifications.

Visit any of our nearest stores, and we’ll take your measurements, arrange fittings, and provide expert fashion and style advice on which adjustments should bring out the best fit.

At LookSmart Alterations, we turn off-the-rack outfits into the perfect suit to make you feel confident and elegant in your own skin. Our full range of alteration services is designed to provide a tailored suit appeal and high-quality results from your pre-loved or brand-new outfits.

We will meticulously tailor-fit your suit, dress, pants, shirts or skirts to complement your exact measurements and body shape. Instead of throwing away used garments or giving up on brand-new suits that just don’t match your body, let our experienced tailors alter them to highlight your best angles and conceal trouble areas so you can wear them with elegance and grace.

Melbourne is always bustling with events, gatherings, and meetings, requiring appropriate and well-fitted attire for work and play. When visiting for bespoke tailoring or clothing alteration services, we often receive clients wearing everyday business casual or dress shirts.

We have no problems taking your measurements in baggy clothes or comfy overalls. However, our bespoke tailors highly recommend bringing the footwear or shoes you plan on wearing with the custom suit that requires alteration.

Aside from that, wearing a dress shirt or undershirt that should go with the suit or dress also helps us take accurate measurements so we can adjust and tailor-fit the garment to the perfect length and get a preview of your attire’s perfect ensemble as soon as we finish with the alterations.

That way, you can get expert tailoring and experience a seamless suit fitting with tailors who pay attention to detail. Bringing the garments and accessories along with the suit should also help you visualise how your outfit should look once we finish with custom alterations.

For wedding dress alterations and any other garments above the waist, wearing a proper bra and shapewear that you intend to wear with the dress is advisable.

How long it takes to complete a suit or clothing alteration will depend on the job’s complexity and whether it’s done during peak seasons and the busiest times, such as in New Year or popular wedding seasons.

Larger tasks and bulk alterations may take longer, such as mending several tailored suits and fitting out entire bridal parties and entourages with bespoke tailoring.

Quick clothing alterations and bespoke suit tailoring can be finished within 24 hours, including dry cleaning. Our expert tailors provide same-day turnaround for most alterations and dry cleaning services, ensuring you get the best quality and a stress-free experience with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Whether you’re rushing for last-minute suit preparations for Melbourne Fashion Week, a date at the National Gallery of Victoria, Regent Theatre, or a business meeting you want to nail, LookSmart Alterations provides fast and expertly crafted services to achieve your desired look. Whether it be sophisticated, stylish or casual, you can be confident that we’ll achieve it.

Visit our nearest stores in Melbourne or contact us at (02) 9637 8222. We’ll gladly answer all of your enquiries during your initial consultation.

We first evaluate the suit or clothing and your alteration request before arriving at a final cost. For instance, we’ll consider the following factors when determining the cost of turning off-the-rack suits and outfits into custom-fitted masterpieces:

Type of Alteration

Tailor-fitting casual clothes or suits are easier and quicker than altering a wedding dress. Besides, shortening a suit or taking a garment in is much simpler than lengthening it, adding more fabric, or letting it out if the waist is too tight.

Number of Alteration Jobs

Our experienced tailors and staff will also indicate how many jobs (or alterations) are required before determining the price. Business suits that often need only one job (hemming, shortening, etc.) will have a lower price tag than alterations that require more than one task, such as taking it in, adding more details, and shortening it.

Condition and Age

Whether the tailored suit is brand-new or worn out will affect the cost of altering or mending it. Worn-out and ripped suits may require invisible mending, which takes more time and costs more than repairing newly bought ones with a few loose threads.

Besides, letting out or lengthening older garments may cost more if the fabric is hard to source.

Fabric Type

The fabric will also affect the cost of altering or tailor-fitting a bespoke suit. Some materials, such as lace, silk, and velvet, are much more delicate and may incur extra costs to source.

Extra Details

Adding highlights, patterns, details, and accessories to the garment, such as tulle fabrics, embroidery, and custom beading, can upgrade the overall beauty of your fit. However, depending on the accessories and details added, the materials and complexity may cost you a bit more extra.

A seamstress makes clothes and apparel for a living, while a tailor alters the clothes and garments to fit a customer’s body shape perfectly. Our master tailors and seamstresses in Melbourne also provide dressmaking services and tailor-fit them to your shape, but we mainly focus on hemming and mending.

Yes! You don’t have to discard quality fabric and outfits just because they look too loose. With our bespoke tailoring in Melbourne and Australia, we’ll take your measurements to adjust your tailored suits to perfection. Perfect look, perfect fit.

Our expert tailors work with bulk alterations for wedding suits, entourages, and custom business suits for discerning gentlemen who want to look sharp and distinguished as they walk the aisle or deliver an exceptional speech.

Every client has a unique body shape and, therefore, unique fitting needs. If your suit is too tight, loose, or bland to stand out, we’ll fix it. We don’t stop with altering your suit to your measurements.

We have in-house stylists who provide expert advice on achieving the best look in your tailored outfit and making a lasting impression and well-executed personal style wherever you go.

Our professional tailors, seamstresses, and dressmakers are experts in restyling, mending, and adjusting all types of garments, so you know you are in the most capable hands in Melbourne and Australia.

At any of our 120 stores nationwide, you will receive a friendly, fast, and high-quality service that leading fashion retailers and satisfied customers know and love.

We provide same-day expert alterations for the following:

 
You also get dry cleaning services, so when you pick up the garment from our store, you’re ready to rock it.

We execute seamless clothing alterations and make sure all imperfections are ironed out and the overall fit adjusted to your preferences.

Our master tailors will not only restyle your outfit, but we also pay attention to detail and create a seamless masterpiece that boosts your confidence and makes you look your best without any traces of alteration!

By choosing Looksmart for your alteration, you can rest assured that your pre-loved and off-the-rack clothes will make you feel confident in your own skin. That means no seams, no loose threads, no imperfections!

In special cases where you need a dress/suit repaired from tears, rips, or holes, we have several store locations in Melbourne that offer invisible mending. We’ll take individual threads from the fabric’s interior and meticulously reweave them to the damaged areas.

Yes! With LookSmart, you can leave your garment for alterations and pick it up the next day, ready to be rocked and worn.

We also dry-clean delicate fabrics like velvet, satin, silk, premium wool, cashmere, and suede, which are prone to shrinkage and damage when machine-washed. Leave your valuable garments to us and pick it up the next day fresh as new.

We pride ourselves on providing exceptional service to first-time and repeat customers at LookSmart Alterations. Our quadruple guarantee on all garments, hems, and alterations ensures amazing service and 100% satisfaction.

 
Note that claims against these guarantees must be presented within 4 weeks from the date of receipt.