Visit LookSmart Your Stylist Tailor & Dry Cleaner For High Quality Dress Alterations & Repairs

Our expert tailors in Sydney will repair, alter, and modify your garments based on your preferences and specifications. We’ll take your measurements, arrange fittings, and give fashion and style advice to determine which adjustments are needed to achieve your dream fit.

At LookSmart, we turn off-the-rack attires into the perfect suit to make you feel comfortable in your own skin. We provide a wide range of alteration services to provide that tailored suit appeal and quality out of pre-loved outfits.

You can have us meticulously tailor your dress or suit to your exact measurements and body shape. There’s no reason to throw out old garments and dresses as we’ll restore them to their best quality, highlighting your best features and complimenting your best angles to make you look more confident and graceful.

Our master tailors ensure that custom suits perfectly fit you and complement your personal tastes while concealing trouble areas. We often have clients wear their everyday casuals for bespoke or custom suits.

While we can get your measurements in casuals, here are a few tips from our bespoke tailors on your initial consultation for a dressmaking or suit-fitting appointment:

When you head to any of our Sydney stores for a custom suit and clothing alteration, we recommend bringing the shoes/footwear you plan on wearing with them. Wearing a dress shirt that goes with the suit is also advised so the garments are tailor-fitted to the correct length and showcase a preview of the perfect ensemble of your attire.

That way, we can perform expert tailoring during suit fitting and examine the finer details to determine how you should look in your suit once the custom alterations are finished.

If you’re planning to get your dress, wedding dress, or anything above the waist altered, wear a proper bra and shapewear that you plan to wear with the garment.

The time it takes to alter a piece of garment or suit will depend on the complexity of the alteration and whether you visit during peak seasons and busy times (New Year, wedding seasons, etc.).

In general, simple suit alterations and bespoke tailoring should be finished within 24 hours, and your freshly tailored and dry-cleaned garment should be ready for pick-up. Our expert tailors provide 24-hour turnaround for most services, ensuring the best quality and a stress-free experience with our 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Whether you’re making last-minute suit and outfit preparations for a Sydney Opera House performance, dinner at the Strand Arcade for a special celebration with a loved one, a photoshoot along Pitt Street, or dressing up for an art gallery date or an official meeting, LookSmart Alterations provides swift and expert tailoring services to help you look your best.

Larger-scale tasks should take longer, such as altering multiple tailored suits and fitting out an entire bridal party with bespoke tailoring. Visit our nearest store location or contact us at (02) 9637 8222, and we’ll happily answer any of your questions about our range of professional alteration services.

We assess the suit or clothing and consider your request before determining the cost of the alteration. For instance, transforming off-the-rack suits into a custom-fitted masterpiece involves the following:

Type of Alteration

Altering a piece of everyday clothing is much easier than altering a wedding dress. For example, shortening a suit or taking it in is much easier than lengthening it or letting it out.

Number of Alteration Jobs

Our experienced tailors will also determine how many jobs an alteration will require before determining the price. A business suit with only one job (hemming, taking in, etc.) will cost less than an alteration that requires fitting it, taking it in, and shortening it simultaneously.

Condition and Age

That said, the condition and age of the tailored suit will also influence the cost of altering it. Is the suit still new or relatively old? Worn-out suits may need more repairs for fitting than newly bought ones, and matching fabrics for lengthening and letting out may be hard to source.

Fabric Type

Fabric type will also affect the cost of altering a bespoke suit because of the materials used and fitting them to your unique body shape. Some fabrics, such as silk and lace, are much more delicate to work with than others and might incur extra costs.

Extra Details

Adding a few details and accessories to the garment, like beading, tulle fabrics, and embroidery, will all create stunning highlights and upgrade the overall look of how the suit fits its wearer. However, the accessories used and the complexity of detail may cost extra.

A seamstress sews clothes and fabrics for a living, while a tailor is responsible for altering outfits to suit a customer. Our Sydney tailors also provide dressmaking services and can create tailor-fitted clothes, but most of our work involves hemming and mending.

We work more with bespoke suits and dresses or ball gowns, especially because these outfits often require custom alterations to fit your body shape perfectly.

Definitely! We’ll breathe new life into your tailored suits and sentimental outfits with a tailor-made fit and feel. Visit our nearest shop, and we’ll take your measurements to determine the adjustments we need to make to your suit for that perfect look, perfect fit.

Our experienced tailors also work with wedding and custom business suits for the discerning gentlemen who prefer a sharp and defined look as they walk the aisle. Every client has unique fitting needs, as some off-the-rack suits are too tight, loose, or bland to stand out in a significant event.

Our services don’t stop with simply altering your suit to your measurements. We have stylists in our stores, so you get expert advice on achieving a glamorous look in your new tailored suit and making a lasting impression wherever you go.

No matter your style, occasion, or outfit, you can rest assured that Sydney’s most talented and capable stylists and dressmakers are taking care of you.

We provide quick and expert alterations for the following:

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

We also provide dry cleaning services, so you’re glam-ready and confident for your next business meeting when you pick up your dress or suit from our store.

We know how a few loose threads and seams can ruin your style and confidence, which means a lot if you’re in front of many eyes during a show, report, or performance. Our seamstress and master tailors not only alter your suits, but we also look at the smallest detail to create a masterpiece that builds your confidence.

Our tailors restyle and repair all types of garments without leaving a trace of alteration. By choosing our alteration services, you’ll look and feel great with your pre-loved and off-the-rack clothes that fit you perfectly.

In special cases where a valuable dress or suit needs flawless repair from tears, rips, or holes, we provide invisible mending services in many store locations. With our invisible mending, we take individual threads from the garment’s interior and carefully reweave them to the damaged sections.

After we alter and tailor-fit your garment to your measurements and preferences, we can dry clean it for an additional cost so it’s ready to be worn as soon as you claim it back.

We also provide dry cleaning for delicate fabrics such as suede, silk, velvet, satin, premium wool, cashmere, and suede. For your perfectly fitted suit, leave it to us for dry cleaning, and you can pick it up the next day in a fresh and pristine condition. Let us clean it for you.

Our services at LookSmart Alterations 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 satisfied with how the alteration comes out, we’ll re-alter it on the spot for free. If it’s impossible to finish the alteration within the day, we’ll deliver it to your address at no extra cost. All our hems are guaranteed for the life of the garment.
• 100% Money Back Guarantee: If you’re still unsatisfied after the re-alteration, we will refund 100% of the cost.
• Competitor Guarantee: Still not satisfied? We will pay for your garment to be altered by a different 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.