Uptown Tailors & Cleaners

Well, they did a good enough job. Discount if you pay upfront instead of later.
But my one caution: the tailor doesn’t speak very good english, which means he didn’t quite get my specific instructions. I wanted the straps on a dress shortened, but I wanted the material taken from the front so that the low back wasn’t shortened. He must not have really understood what I meant because my dress came back with the back up higher, which is exactly what I did NOT want.
I had jeans hemmed too, and those were fine.

Great job with a pair of pants and a dress. The dress is a shimmery bluish color, and it was probably not easy to find thread to match, but it looks as if I could return it to the store and they’d never even notice.
Bonus, I needed a button one day to fix up my suit, and I asked to buy a button (silly I know, but I didnt want to buy a whole bunch for just one). The man at the counter brought out a whole box of buttons and gave me one for free! So nice!

The zipper on my jacket broke in early 2008, leaving me with a dilemma in the middle of the cold Minnesota winter. It was just the metal zip itself, not the zipper track, that broke.
Getting a zipper replacement can be easy and cheap, or difficult and expensive, depending on what tailor you go to, I discovered. Good thing I inquired at a few places rather than making a hasty decision.
The first three places I went to said it would cost $ 50 – 100 to replace the zipper and would take one to two WEEKS, as they’d have to order the right metal zip and do god knows what else. I was floored by this and couldn’t believe something so simple could be so expensive and time-​consuming. Also, how could I survive for one or two weeks in Minnesota without a jacket? I only have one winter coat and didn’t want to have to buy another so I could make it through the repair-​period.
Fortunately I stumbled across Uptown Tailors and Cleaners, on the corner of 27^th St. and Hennepin, a place that has a cheap banner instead of a proper sign, and features only a sport coat and a dress in the window, to signify that they deal with clothes.
The old man behind the counter took a look at my jacket and said only, «Give me two hours. $ 15.»
Now, nearly a year later, my zipper is in perfect shape, works fine, and it cost me a fraction of what other Uptown tailors were charging, and it took a matter of hours, rather than weeks. It also saved me the expense of having to buy another jacket during the repair period.
This tailor is GOOD. I’ll go there for any alterations or repair needs I have in the future. I would give them five stars, but the dry cleaning portion of their business uses non-​ecological cleaning agents, so I have to dock them a star for that.