Services

Women's Clothing, Dresses & Accessories

We love dresses! From off-duty daytime looks right through to striking little black dresses and holiday maxis, find your favourite pieces from the women’s dress collection. Whatever your style, put your own fashion statement on the catwalk trends. Think Summer brights, 70s folk, flowing pleats, geometrics and florals in a variety of scales.

Coming in beautiful shades and flattering designs, the Blossom collection features lace dresses, layered styles, sumptuous pleating and embellished maxis. Stencil also sees a continuation of the floral trend with full blooms adorning stylish shifts; with colours of the collection including navy, red and teal. The going out collections showcase occasion dresses in dusky pinks, navy tones or the classic black with luxe detailing which make for perfect Summer wedding outfits.

Types of alteration services

The most common reason to visit an alteration shop is to have hems and sleeves adjusted on skirts, dresses, jeans, slacks, shirts, bouses and blazers.

Other popular services include mending and resizing garments. Mending services include repairing holes and tears and replacing broken zippers. Size changes can be achieved through adjusting or adding darts to blouses, dresses and blazers. Seams can be taken in or let out to improve fit. The waistlines of pants, skirts and dresses can also be adjusted.

Get the best fit

Here are best-fit guidelines for men and women:

• Ideally, the pant leg falls to the top of the shoe and fabric does not touch the floor.
• Jacket and blazer sleeves should fall to the bottom of the wrist bone on the thumb side when arms are resting at both sides. For men, shirt cuffs ideally fall one-fourth to one-half of an inch lower than the blazer sleeve to show a show minimal cuff.
• An empire waist flatters women with fuller hips and a smaller torso by bringing attention to the waist. An empire waist also flatters straight female silhouettes by creating the impression of a curvy figure.

Custom, or bespoke, tailoring

Custom tailoring is the process of making clothing to fit an individual, and differs considerably from alterations made to a ready-made piece of clothing.

Custom tailors, also known as bespoke, or made-to-order tailors or dressmakers, are highly knowledgeable about how to get a good fit, and about sewing and clothing construction methods. They often work in specialty clothing boutiques and family-owned businesses, or as independent tailors.

Unusual services

Sewing experts can provide additional services, including restyling clothes and repairing fine leather. Restyling keeps clothes current. Sewing experts who provide this service can convert necklines to accent the chest or elongate the neck. They can turn a dress into a skirt or alter the style of the sleeves to create a fresh look.

Minor fine leather repairs involve carefully weaving new stitches to blend into the fabric. Extensive damage to a leather garment may require new material to replace the original leather.

We use the best sewing machine