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The Most Trusted Tailor Melbourne Has To Offer
Experience the LookSmart difference in Melbourne Central and transform your off-the-rack clothes into custom-fitted masterpieces. As the most trusted clothing alterations brand in Australia and NZ, our 120-strong stores (and growing) take pride in our fast, courteous, and inexpensive tailoring loved by leading fashion retailers, corporate brands, and 1M+ satisfied customers.
LookSmart Alterations is the most trusted clothing alterations franchise in Australia and New Zealand, with over 120 stores and growing. We take pride in giving you fast, courteous, inexpensive tailoring – with a level of quality that’s gained the respect of leading fashion retailers, the corporate world and close to a million satisfied customers.
Visit us during mall hours at Lower Ground level, just beside St. Station and Lei Lei.
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LookSmart Alterations – Your One-Stop Melbourne Central Tailor
It’s easy to take alterations and tailors for granted, but we are your heroes in last-minute styling and clothing repair situations. Not only can you trust us experts for fashion advice, we will also take care of all repairs, restyle, and alterations.
After all, everyone needs a go-to tailor to help you right when you need them. Be it a team of seamstresses and tailors you can visit for last-minute wedding preparations or long-term style planning and dressmaking, be it for wedding dresses, party outfits, or corporate attires.
Being located at the heart of coworking spaces, techglomerates, and busy streets in Melbourne, LookSmart is conveniently accessible to all working employees and university students around the metro, particularly around La Trobe Street, Lonsdale Street, Elizabeth Street, and Victoria street.
By partnering with LookSmart, we’ll step in to repair rips, tears, and execute invisible mending from visible holes and restoration from wear, sizing issues, and visible stains. In Melbourne Central, LookSmart Alterations is undoubtedly the most experienced tailor with deep expertise in all aspects of alterations, dress repairs, and dry cleaning.
Clothing Alterations & Repairs in Melbourne Central
LookSmart Alterations has become Victoria’s go-to clothing repairs and alterations provider, loved by leading fashion retailers in Australia and over 1 million customers annually. Whether you need us to mend a tear, eliminate stains, take a garment in, let it out, resize, lengthen, or shorten a piece of clothing, and press a suit to perfection, we got you covered.
Our expert tailors can execute invisible repairs and patch up frayed areas in cleanly and efficiently that you’ll never even notice the repairs.
Tailored Suit & Wedding Dress Alterations Melbourne Central
Melbourne Central is a hotspot for retail fashion outlets, everyday shoppers, flocks of employees, and people buying their first designer dresses and suits. With popular clothing retailers such as Myer, Zara, H&M, Uniqlo, and many more, you have a broad range of options for all budgets in Melbourne Central.
However, despite the plethora of options available to you, you may still struggle to find the perfectly fitting suit and dress for your wedding. That said, purchasing exceptional pieces require exceptional touch, ensuring that you make the most out of your bespoke suits and wedding dresses.
As the leading provider of wedding suits and bridal dress alterations in Melbourne, we also tailor bridesmaid dresses, flower girl dresses, veils, groomsmen suits, and outfits for the parents of the bride/groom.
Our Melbourne tailors have the skill and expertise to custom-make and tailor-fit a wedding gown solely for you so you can navigate the wedding preparations with ease. If you have a specific personal style or design in mind, let us bring it to life!
Full-Service Dry Cleaning
Have your delicate garments and business suits dry cleaned and pressed at LookSmart Alterations with our full-service dry cleaning in Melbourne Central. Our shops in Australia and New Zealand only use innovative and eco-friendly chemicals and cleaning methods incorporating only non-water-based solvents for finest fabrics like silk, cashmere, suede, laces, velvet, satin, chiffon, and wool.
Leave your garments to our care at LookSmart, and get 100% assurance that we will return them in excellent condition, revitalising their colour, shape, and texture. Visit us in Melbourne Central, and our team will be happy to help you.
LookSmart is the world’s largest tailoring & dry cleaning company specialising in Australia & New Zealand. We also offer clothing alterations & dry cleaning services in Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, & other areas of Australia. Some of our other services include:
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At LookSmart, we do more than just clean and alter your clothes – we’re dedicated to delivering unparalleled quality and satisfaction.
What sets us apart is our Quadruple Guarantee – a four-part promise that ensures your treasured garments are returned to you looking and fitting better than ever before. When you entrust your prized possessions to us, you can count on:
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does a tailor do?
At LookSmart Melbourne Central, 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 Melbourne Central at corner La Trobe and Swanston Streets, 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.
What do you wear to get tailored?
Our Melbourne Central shop is conveniently located at the heart of bustling coworking spaces, commercial district, and along major streets and thoroughfares, so we expect a lot of customers coming to and from work for a quick hemming, patchwork, and leaving their pieces for alterations.
That said, feel free to wear work clothes and daily casuals when visiting us for fitting and alterations. We are located at LG, Melbourne Central, just beside Lei Lei and St. Station, 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 take the perfect lengths and give you a peek of how the style will look once alterations are finished.
How long does an alteration or tailoring take?
Quick alterations like hemming the sleeves and shortening lengths will take roughly an hour up to within 24 hours. 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 Melbourne Central, 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 National Gallery of Victoria, the Royal Botanic Gardens, or at Melbourne Museum, or just to alter a beloved piece you got from fashion retailoers like H&M, Zara, or Myer.
How much will the alteration cost?
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.
What is the difference between a seamstress and a tailor?
LookSmart’s seamstresses create garments and pieces from raw fabric and templates. On the other hand, our tailors precisely adjust, fit, and fine-tune these items to perfectly match your fit and body shape. Tailors also mend damaged fabrics, hem garments, and recommend styling options for your occasion. Visit us in our Melbourne Central shop for bespoke tailoring and dry cleaning services.
Can a tailor make my suit slimmer?
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 Melbourne Central tailors, 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.
What type of alterations do you specialise in?
At LookSmart Melbourne, 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
- Invisible mending for a seamless finish
You can also take advantage of 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.
Will my alteration be noticeable?
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.
Can I add dry cleaning in the alteration service?
Yes! Simply request our staff to add dry cleaning services, and we’ll have your garments dry-cleaned after alterations for an extra cost.
At LookSmart, we are experts 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 stylish. Entrust your valuable garments to us and pick them up good as new.
Do you offer any guarantee on your alterations?
At LookSmart Melbourne Central, we pride ourselves on providing exceptional service to first-time and repeat customers. We keep up with the festivities and vibrant celebrations in Melbourne and Victoria 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.
