Chris Fine Tailoring

The service was fantastic. I had a sport coat altered and it could not have been done any better than they did. I will most definitely be returning with all my tailoring and dry cleaning needs in the future! I am very impressed with the business as a whole especially their talent with alterations! I give it two thumbs up, if I had three thumbs I would give it a third as well, I recommend this to anyone looking for alterations or simple dry cleaning!

They are always nice and my dry cleaning, mending, and alterations are always done well and in a reasonable amount of time. I never used to get alterations done, thinking it would be a big chore, but it’s quick and no-​hassles with these guys.

I brought a dress here to be shortened before a wedding. Despite pinning it AND wearing shoes that were higher than I intended to wear to the wedding in order to ensure the dress was floor length, he cut the dress way too short, rendering it unwearable at an awkward ankle length. They then insisted they could let it out another half an inch (there was about 0.25 inches of material to let out, and it needed another 3 to fit properly). When I came back to pick it up, still not pleased with the state of my dress, I wanted my money back for the alteration. She gave me half of the money back (to compensate for the half of my dress I still have?) and told me not to come back to her store. Poor quality work and poor customer service. Don’t go here.

I’ve tried out the tailoring here in the past, and today I really gave them a challenge with a tear in my favorite shirt.
In a word: perfect. Their seamstress made a perfect mend, barely even visible. The craftsmanship here is impeccable and I can’t recommend them highly enough. I plan on taking all of my mends/​alterations here in the future.

Tailoring work: 10 stars!
Work management system: between 3 – 4 stars.
The couple who owns this place is a fantastic tailoring team. I was searching for years, literally, for a tailor who I could trust to do great work at reasonable prices. I’ve had a lot of clothes ruined by crappy tailors.
The fellow has been tailoring for over 50 years (I kid you not!) and has such an excellent understanding of fabric, drape, shape. This compares to other local tailors who have 5 – 10 years experience. His eye for style and fit is complemented by his wife’s perspective– if you get something tailored, make sure both are there to give input.
The only catch is that about 10% of the time an alteration may not be ready at the agreed upon date. Plan accordingly– it’s worth it.
I’d been «saving up» my clothes that need alterations for years before finding this team, and have now spent at least $ 350 on over 25 pieces in the past year. Every penny was worth it– now my clothes fit brilliantly!!!

The tailoring here is fine, but their dry cleaning service ruined an expensive wool hat and expensive wool sweater. They refused to compensate in any way. They said the sweater was 35 years old (it isn’t) and the hat fit fine after dry cleaning (it didn’t).
I’ve never bothered to write a Unilocal review before. Don’t take your dry cleaning here.

The folks at Chris did a great job! I had a suit jacket tailored and you’d never even know it! Had both sleeves taken up for $ 35. Reasonable price and ready in 3 days. Very happy.

I had one pair of jeans hemmed ($ 10), one button on my jeans replaced ($ 10), and a crappy H&M dress tailored to not drape weirdly on my body ($ 17).
Everything looks incredible. I keep looking at the new hem to make sure I didn’t dream the whole thing because it looks THAT good! The dress fits much better now, quite a feat considering the crappy material it’s made of. And the woman found a button that matches the color of other metal bits on the jeans perfectly.
The couple is very sweet, and are clearly pros. I will definitely bring more clothes back to them!

Chris Fine has been my go to dry cleaner for the past three years. They’ve fixed more buttons, worn elbows, broken hemmings, and stains then I can count Their prices are a bargain for the low stress and high quality service provided. Great business run by great owners!

I am very impressed with the quality of work from this tailor. As other reviewers have noted, it appears that just a man and his wife work here. The shop is quaint and not much to look at, but the quality of work speaks volumes. I brought three pairs of jeans in — I thought two of them were beyond saving due to excessive wear between the thighs, and the other needed a hem. The jeans were repaired beyond my expectations — you can hardly tell they were worn through and the patch is not overly stiff, as I have experienced in the past with other tailors. The tailor truly rescued my jeans from the trash can. The hem is beautiful — straight across with the right color thread to match the original, and at just the right length. I give this tailor a wholehearted recommendation!

I just moved to the area, and I needed to get some pants hemmed and tapered before winter. Coming from Texas, tailoring could be fairly cheap when I found the right place, and I was a little afraid of how expensive it was going to be up here.
When I arrived, they ushered me into a little fitting room, and then the woman (there’s one man and one women — a husband and wife?) adjusted my pants and asked me questions. Even though there was a littttttle bit of a language barrier, she totally understood the very particular directions I gave her. Not only that, but they let me pick up the two pairs of pants TWO DAYS LATER (I’m used to waiting like a week!), AND it was $ 20/​pair — which was great. On top of that, they were tailored JUST as I wanted them to be. These people are my go-​to tailors, now and for the rest of my time in Somerville.
p. s. They do only take cash or maybe check — but that’s not so uncommon for a tailor/​dry-​cleaner around here…

I love this place. Small, friendly, and extremely competent. They have a little changing room with a curtain. They always get my clothes done when they say they will, and they have also very cheerfully done rush jobs for me. Their rates are very reasonable. I highly recommend Chris Fine Tailoring!

Well, looks like I wasn’t the first person to review this place. Just wanted to clarify that. They are still the best dry cleaners around.

I used this place for it’s convenience, i used to work next door I have given them multiple chances and now giving up and using Hawk across the street until they let me down.
1^st incident, I took my future brother in law to get a suit tailored here, for HIS FATHERS WEDDING! We were told to come back to pick it up a week later, after explaining that the wedding was that same day and it needed to be fully ready, they assured me it would be ready. Morning of the wedding, we get there and the suits in perfect shape, but the shirt was given to another customer which they didn’t have a phone number to reach. Day of the wedding we had to go buy a new shirt, have it pressed and although they reimbursed us and did not charge for the pressing of the original shirt or new shirt., it was a huge hassle and I had to negotiate these costs!
2^nd incident… I brought a silk scarf which I wear in my hair, for a cleaning as it had some hair gel on it. pick up the scarf almost a week later and it’s wrinkled and gel still on it, I didn’t notice until I got home, where I got back in my car and went back to Chris Fine showing them the problem and refused their offer to a free — «re“wash, and demanded my money back.
I did have many positive experiences with them in the mean time, but have given up faith completely.

I came here based on the two glowing reviews — I’d previously been going to Royal White on the other side of the ‘ville, which offers cheap, somewhat industrial dry cleaning services.
Chris Fine is the total opposite — nice, wise-​seeming old Asian owners in a tiny, tiny shop. Instead of entering your info into a computer system or even taking your phone number or name, the guy just gives you a slip with a number — I was skeptical, since 9 times out of 10 at a big dry cleaners I lose/​forget my slip.
I managed to hold onto it, though, and was rewarded with some excellent dry cleaning — Chris Fine got out blood, sweat, and wine stains much better than Royal White did (really, don’t worry about what I do while wearing dress shirts) and turned my dropoff around just as quickly.
Not quite as cheap and paper-​only accounting takes it down to 4 stars from 5, but it’ll definitely be my new local go-​to dry cleaning place.

As a vertically challenged individual, I have to have most everything altered. They do a great job and are always friendly. Dry cleaning is also reasonably priced.