Spirit Alterations & Tailoring

I brought in a dress for the holiday and she altered it perfectly and did it in one day… awesome

The work is okay, a bit higher priced than your dry cleaners. The staff however, are very forgetful and they awesome they are right all the time. Make sure you have them write Everything out on your ticket! They swore they didn’t have my garment when it was clearly written on ticket!

Came here to be my bridesmaid dress altered. She took her time to make sure after alterations it would drape properly. It was $ 35 to trim the bottom of my dress ($ 5 extra because it wasn’t even all the way around). Dress was ready in 1 week.

They are completely rude to their customers and will not honor their word. The quality of their hemming services was also very terrible and I’ve never seen anything worse. Avoid at all cost you do not want this trouble!!!

The final work itself was fine, but the service was extremely lackluster. Forgot to do half the work, didn’t call (while insisting they did), never apologized nor made any concessions of any kind to try to make it up to me for the errors. Again, the work itself was fine but I expected more for the prices.

So I walked in at the same time as another guy, he was picking up a dress for his girlfriend/​mother, someone. The worker brought the dress out for him and it looked like it has been wadded up in a ball in the back. He told her that she and his girlfriend/​mother had discussed that she would iron it first, she gets all confused and then says– ummm can you come back later? That should have been my first clue this was not the place for me.
I was bringing in a large shirt that I wanted the sleeves cut off of, shortened and open to make it look like a jacket (though no zipper or buttons or anything). I show her a picture of what type of style I’m looking for and all she can focus on is the jacket in the picture is leather. Yes, I know that ma’am, I’m not asking you to create something new just open up this shirt. She looks at me and says that that is the equivalent of a custom new product and she wants to charge me $ 80!!! The shirt was on clearance when I bought it so I was like no.
I went over to Alterations by Sue one block away on Kirkwood. She took one look at it and said no problem, changed me $ 30 and was able to cut some pieces right then and there to show me what it would look like. I will never go back to Spirit, Alterations by Sue is so much better!

I had a pretty mixed experience here. The tailor who helped me was very knowledgeable and sweet– I liked her a lot. However, when I came to pick up my item, I was less impressed than I’d hoped to be, especially given some of the great reviews on here! They charged me $ 40 before tip, and basically all they did was add a zipper into an existing seam. When I brought my dress over and asked about adding a zipper, she said it would be more expensive because she was going to make an «invisible» or internal zipper. However, it sticks like crazy and I have to grip the dress and practically yank to get the zipper to move (this is while the dress is still on the hanger).
Overall, nice service, tidy and organized store. But I feel that it’s overpriced for the quality of the tailoring. I spent as much on the original dress as I did adding a «meh» zipper that doesn’t want to slide up or down.

Very quick, reasonably priced, quality alterations service. I needed a bridesmaids dress altered in three weeks time. It needed a lot of work (it was basically one size too big). They got it done in about a week and were $ 200 cheaper than most other places I asked. I will definitely be going back.

Got some pants cut and tapered, work was done perfectly, also was very affordable, I will definitely be coming back

Got a pair of pants hemmed. $ 14. Dropped off Monday and picked up Thursday. (I think they forgot to call me when done.) Work was done perfectly.

New to the area so I consulted the Council of the Esteemed Unilocalers, who guided me here. I recently dropped some poundage (you felt the change in the Earth’s gravitational pull? yep, that was me), and therefore had a closet full of pricey business clothes I couldn’t wear.
The owner was a doll! I brought in *armloads* of clothes (dresses, suits w/​pants and skirts, plain trousers) and we chatted about what I was trying to do… which was mainly taking in the waists, or so I thought. As I tried on and she patiently pinned and marked, she made other suggestions… taking a skirt up a couple of inches to modernize, slimming the legs of some pants. She asked when I wanted the items, did I want her to call when «groups» were done (all the dresses, all the suits), and I told her I’d just wait and get it all at once, and wasn’t in a rush at all. I’m thinking, a month maybe? She quoted a couple of weeks and I nearly fainted. TWO WEEKS for enough clothes to open my own boutique?! Unheard of, and I honestly had my doubts, but I rolled with it.
I’m so happy I did, because she called me less than two weeks later to tell me everything was done! She had me try on each piece so we could make sure they were correct… every single item was flawless! The advice she gave was spot-​on and the pieces were very professionally done — Mr. Klein, Mr. Lauren, and Mr. Kors couldn’t have done a better job themselves. So now, not only do I have a ton of «new» clothes that are in my size, but they’re sized perfectly to my body… VERY, VERY happy!

I took a dress that I was wearing for my birthday to Nhulien at 11:00 a.m. on a Tuesday. I had to make the dress a little tighter at the sides where keyholes were. I told Nhulien that I needed the dress back by Friday at 11:00 a.m. On Wednesday, I received a call from her that the dress was ready and that she wanted me to try it on to make sure nothing else needed to be done! I appreciated the fact that she worked faster than expected and allotted time for corrections if needed. The dress was a hit and fit perfectly! I will definitely be taking more items there in the future!

I recently moved into the area and found this place due to good Unilocal reviews. I also like to support small businesses. I bought a vintage coat that I fell in love with, but it was huge on me. So, I brought it into Spirit to be tailored and they did a phenomenal job! It was about 6 sizes too big to begin with and they did an excellent job basically reconstructing it to fit me. They even gave it shape in the waist to accentuate my body, which was a winning touch. The tailoring work looks very professional. Nhulien, the owner, even said she enjoyed working on it and that it had become like a piece of art to her. I really appreciate when people put passion into their work. I will definitely be using them in the future and highly recommend their tailoring services (:

Professional and knowledgeable. Can’t wait to see my wedding dress! So far the service and expertise in alterations ~ exceptional.

The lady there is really nice! She knows what she is doing, and perfect alterations! I had my prom dress altered and I am so surprised that it came out perfect! She would even give little tips on fashion sense. Very nice!

I had my daughter’s wedding dress altered here, since it’s the neighborhood alterations people we have used for years. They did an outstanding job for a reasonable price with an incredibly fast turnaround. The expensive wedding shop people said it was as nice a job as they’d ever seen. I highly recommend Spirit Alterations.

When my daughter and her best friend received their band performance gowns the night before the concert, the only choice this non-​sewing mom had was to use Stitch Witchery to take up the hem. (Stitch Witchery is a bonding tape that melts when ironed, effectively gluing the fabric together.) The gowns — long, black, polyester numbers — each had about a foot of excess length, but the Stitch Witchery did a good enough job until I could get it to Spirit Alterations a week later.
The lady that helped me was very nice and patiently accommodated two giggling teenage girls. Thankfully the girls managed to hold still while the lady pinned the hem, however, even if they had been squirmy (think little kids), her hands were steady and I think she would have pulled it off with aplomb.
We didn’t need them right away, and even though she could have had them done within a day, we opted to pick them up about two weeks later. When I picked them up, the hems were perfectly straight and exactly the right length. The dresses were ironed and hanging neatly on their hangers, ready to go to the next concert. (And God bless her, she managed to get the Stitch Witchery residue out, too.)
I absolutely recommend Spirit Alterations, and will definitely use them again. They are located at 1660 S Dairy Ashford Street, Houston, TX, 77 077, on the northwest corner of Dairy Ashford and Westmere Streets.
Note: They are listed in the phone book as Spirit Cleaners, however, the signage clearly identifies them as Spirit Alterations.