South Bay Tailors

My son took a suit in for alterations, I thought it was pricey, and asked for an explanation. There seems to be a language barrier, and it was difficult to communicate with him. He also collected payment upfront which seems unusual. When I asked him about it, he got flustered and told me to come pick up the suit. Hmm. Weird to me.

I’ve been a customer for the past ten years I got my prom dress altered here he did a great job. My sister got her wedding dress altered here he also did a great job with that. When it comes to my work uniforms I come here to get them altered. He does a good job all around. :)

The owner (Mario) does good work. He really helped me out and cleaned up the mess that was caused by Coco’s Alterations NOT doing two simple hems in 5 days.
Mario turned the job around in less than 24 hours and his price was about the same.
He seems like an honest, hard-​working business owner and he went out of his way for me, I will be bringing future business his way.
South Bay Tailors over Coco’s all damn day!

I take my pants and suits there all t he time for repairs and alterations. The owner /​tailor is friendly and has never let me down. His work is professional and ready when promised (usually sooner).

I have been coming here exclusively for tailoring since 2006 on men’s clothing.
They do a good job and I have not had any problems.
I have given them the usual pants hemming, and suit sleeve shortening work mainly.
The most complicated work was shortening the sleeves on a silk lined leather jacket and it came out fine for $ 40.00.
Mario is the owner and seems to always be in the shop – he told me last week that he works 6 days a week and sometimes even on Sunday when the store is closed. He is an experienced tailor, but not a salesman overly friendly talkative type – he is serious about his business, and getting the work done timely – he is not chatty at all.
Last week I was in to have an old suit I like re-​tailored to remove the pant cuffs and make it flat (non-​cuff) without showing any lines or marks from the prior cuff folds and wear. I asked Mario first if he could do it without damage to the pant and he said that he can do it easily.
I was not on any time deadline – a week would have been OK with me, but Mario got it done in less than 2 days and it cost $ 15 and it looks fine – like it never had cuffs. Cash or checks only here. Price wise, it’s not cheap and not very expensive. It’s priced at market for what you would pay for tailoring for quality work is my feeling.
I have also given him quality dress pants to «let out» or «take in» and he makes them fit perfect with the same professional seaming from the factory.
Parking is free and easy and simple right in front of the entrance in a large private lot.

i took my Jiu-​Jitsu Gi here to get my patches put on. They did a crap job and the patches were put on crooked, plus he had over a week to do it. When i brought it over to the tailor to fix the crooked patch the girl at the register took $ 40 from my wallet i stupidly left on the counter. the tailor then fixed the patch but didn’t secure it very well. within a month i had to have it redone. I say booo!

I’m 6 feet tall, slim and have to wear size large for long sleeve shirts because my arms are too long for mediums. This causes a problem for me sometimes because I get shirts that I like but they aren’t cut slim enough.
I needed a shirt slimmed down so I started calling around and everyone wanted to charge $ 25-​$ 30 for this. The shirt itself barely cost that much. South Bay Tailors only charged me $ 15 and the shirt looks great now — and he did it in the same day. I don’t know if I would take an expensive suit there, but he has my business for shirts.

I am all scared now because I took my suit there. I wanted to go the the highly recommend tailor’s across the street but they were closed. I don’t have mobile internet so I went here before I saw the review.
So far I rate this as 3 stars and will update the rating after I see the results. I’ve gained weight since the last time I wore a suit :(so I took it here to have the jacket and slacks taken out a little. He did have me try on the jacket and marked how he was going to expand it, but the slacks he just eyed! I guess the slacks get covered up by the jacket, but we’ll see when I go to pick it up. I am really scared because I need this suit for a job interview next Friday! I will be picking it up on Thursday and hopefully I will remember to update this review. If not, you know nothing really eventful happened so the review would stay at 3 stars. I’m sure if it horrible I will update!!! and same for if it turns out to be a great experience.
I picked up my suit last week and was glad that it fit and I was able to wear it to my job interview. As for how good it looked, I’ll leave it to if I get the job or not hehe :). Anyhow they open early 8am so when I went in the pick up was fast. I should tell you though, they don’t give you a claim tag or anything, it’s just based on name, so someone else could have taken my suit for the fee paid for tailoring. :(Another thing is they only take cash or check. It cost me $ 50 for them to let out the pants and jacket, I think it’s a little expensive, but not really sure since this is the first time I’ve had this type of tailoring done. I still wish CoCo’s across the street was open when I first had to get it tailored, because I had high anxiety waiting to get my suit. Oh one other note, they did not give a receipt either. Because of the anxiety, lack of claim tag, lack of receipt, and what I think was a high price I dropped it down to 2 stars. Now I know this isn’t right, but if I get the job, I will put it back to 3 stars cuz obviously they made me look good so it was a good job tailoring. Right now I really can’t tell.
Wow, the one face to face interview I have with the newly tailored suit landed me the job! :) 1 for 1! So as promised, I’m bumping it up a star to 3 stars. I’m not that picky on clothing so I probably wouldn’t recommend it for women’s clothing per Jessica’s review, but I think with men’s clothing he does a decent job. I think it only applies to business dress clothes too. I remember seeing only suits and business slacks there.

Horrible experience! My boyfriend & I took pants and tops in to South Bay Tailors and they butchered pretty much everything they could! And then took all our money for it…
I wanted my bootcut jeans to be slimmed in a bit to more of a slight flare or straight leg. I saw how he pinned them and they looked good. Well when I got them back, they were extremely tapered (umm never a good look!) and not only that, they were done so in such an awkward way, like a severe pinch in at the knees. Hated it and will have to turn them into capris or shorts.
Then there was a cardigan I had with 1 missing button. Brought the button and asked that they sew it back on and oh, while they were at it, did they mind just tightening up the other buttons on it? Ya know, an extra 30 seconds and foot of thread. He did so and tried to charge me $ 15 for it.
Do not go here unless you are a fan of ruining your clothes. Really.