Master Tailor & Cleaners

This place is wonderful! The dry-​cleaning quality is consistently excellent and it’s nice to have a place you can trust with your favorite/​more expensive items.

Best dry cleaners I have ever been to. Which seems like a weird thing to say, until you think you can get things dry cleaned somewhere else more cheaply and realize: these people are artists. They can get out LITERALLY any stain, do great tailoring and the quality of pressing etc is great. It is relatively expensive and they generally can’t turn things around in a day, but it’s worth the price and the wait. There is a reason they occasionally have a line out the door.

Called and they said they had no interest on tailoring dress. While the name of the shop is master tailor.

I hardly ever get dry cleaning done, so I asked my closest friends who always get their vintage clothes dry cleaned where they go — they swear by Master Tailor & Cleaners. I took my wool jacket here, and they did a great job including resewing some of the loose buttons. Dropped it off on Thur and it was ready for pickup on Wed. Cost $ 23 and I paid with credit card. Would go back here gain for sure.

Wow. I cannot say more wonderful things about this place. The quality is A+. I cannot comment on the actual dry cleaning because I never got my dry cleaning done here but I can comment on the tailoring. I drive all the way from NJ (I live about 45 minutes away) to get my tailoring done here. The owner has tailored my suit and 2 pairs of new acne studio denim.
And the outcome is just beautiful. For all my pants, they were just a little long and a little wide so he hemmed and tapered the leg opening.
For my j crew Ludlow suit pants, he hemmed them just enough for my height even though I was hesitant that he was not hemming them enough. His expertise showed me otherwise.
For my acne studio raw denim and selvedge denim, he did them exactly how’d I wanted. He made the leg opening slightly smaller and I suggested that making the pants shorter was not necessary because I wanted the «stack» look towards the end. But he suggested otherwise and it came out looking pretty awesome.
Price– for tailoring it’s pretty steep compared to where I live. But sometimes quality cost $$!!! I’m a college student and it’s still affordable for me so I think you’ll be okay!
I will be back Masters!

Hands down the BEST dry cleaner in the city. The people there are always very friendly and polite.
I brought my suit jacket with a lot of stains AFTER already getting it «dry cleaned“at Liberties Walk Dry Cleaners in Northern Libs (ZERO stains removed by Liberties). I came back to pick it up and ALL OF THE STAINS WERE REMOVED! She said «it was very hard to get out all the stains, but we made sure to get them all out!». It just goes to show how much more these people value their customers and take pride in being the best in the city!
If you have tough stains on expensive clothes, get them dry cleaned here! They will do everything in their power to clean it for you! Love this place for saving my suit!

I was excited to use this place, after seeing the generally positive reviews on Unilocal and the PhillyMag recognition (not sure that really means anything), but I must warn people to STAY AWAY from this place. I had 12 dress shirts dry cleaned and seven of them came back with new stains, four black stains in the same general spot on the left sleeve. These stains were not on the shirts when I dropped them off and the clothes are now ruined unless wearing a sweater to cover up the huge blemishes.
I called them today to discuss the issue and was told it was immediately my fault. I tried to explain three different times the situation on the call and only was told to «not call back» and «they didn’t need any more customers.» I plan to stop by in person tomorrow to demand a refund, but that won’t even come close to covering the cost of the clothes. Very frustrated and the person on the phone was a first-​class jerk.

Best tailor in the city. I’ve been bringing suits here to get tailored for the past few years and they do an amazing job. Extremely knowledgable and fairly priced considering.
I also bring my dry cleaning here. They always have my items ready for pick up on the date promised and I’ve never had any problems with them losing or damaging anything.
Very friendly and always a really pleasant experience.

I’m writing this after over a year as a loyal dry-​clean customer. I’ve never had an issue. Yes, they a bit more premium than others but I’m fine with that cost — it’s very close to me in Rittenhouse, quality is consistent, they are ALWAYS nice and professional, and I like to support local proprietors. PLUS, they tend to (probably out of loyalty) toss in a few free quick fixes like tie stitching etc.
I’m sure some folks have had issues, no drycleaner is 100%. However, for the money and the experience, Master Tailor has my full support. Also, Diamond is cute.

Two of my dry cleaners decided to close so I came to Unilocal with hopes of finding a good go-​to dry cleaner.
Unilocal was correct in that they do a great job, but is definitely on the expensive side. I am a messy person in life so I brought in several blouses/​dresses with lipstick, beer, oil, blood, sweat, tears, and more, on them. I figured many of the stains would come out halfway because they weren’t fresh, but literally all the stains came out 100%! Veryy happy about this! Two items were in pretty bad shape when I gave them to her and she was honest and said that it would be pricey to fix them and asked if I thought it was worth it. I really appreciated that she looked into it, quoted me, and left it up to me.
The stained silk blouses cost me about $ 7 I believe. Again, this is on the expensive side even for Rittenhouse area, but I’ll return.

UPDATE: in the span of a month, i’ve had four pants altered and two dry cleaned.
they altered two of my pants in ONE DAY!!! second time, they had my dry cleaning done in like two or three days. third time, they altered my pants over the weekend. how amazing is that?! they’re also SO incredibly polite! i found my philadelphia dry cleaner/​tailor!
they also have a cute little pup… how can anybody have a negative experience at this place?!
OLD: so far so good… my first dry cleaner/​tailor in philadelphia. they’re right around the corner from where i work and have great Unilocal reviews. even my boss recommended it. he was very polite and gave sensible recommendations. i will update my review after i go pick my pants up.

While the only experience I have here is taking some suit pants here for alterations, the owners were super friendly and honest, and my pants fit super well now! They also have a small dog that runs around the place but is very well behaved (dogs are always a plus for me).

They are MIRACLE workers. I take all my clothes to them. Recently had a floor-​length navy silk dress with a lot of unfortunate stains on it from an event I went to (big white blob of food, spilled drinks) and ALL of them came out with no ill effects on the color of the dress. Also they are really sweet and a pleasure to work with.

After the hems on a pair of slacks that I had done somewhere else came undone, I brought them (and a couple others to shorten) to be re-​hemmed. It was fairly busy which is a always a good sign.
The owners are extremely nice and actually know their regular customers’ name. I just picked up the items I dropped off and the stitching is neat and well-​done.
Next up: I’ll try their dry cleaning since winter is now over and the coats need to be cleaned.

Work here can be expensive (to hem the sleeves on a sport coat and bring in the waist I was charged $ 80, and about $ 110 for a whole suit), but I think the tailor does good work. I had 2 sport coats, and 3 suits done here.
The dry cleaning process is pretty expensive though. A regular shirt without any stains will run $ 5.60, which appears to be twice the price of neighboring cleaners.
$ 20 for dry cleaning my wool peacoat.
Alternations are a little on the slow side. Expect 2 – 3 weeks, but when he says he will have it done by that date, he does!
Tailor is nice and chatty, but one issue is that I think a good tailor should make suggestions on what looks good. He doesn’t offer any suggestions. I forgot to mention when I was getting my suit pants hemmed to slim them down a bit. He didn’t suggest it either, even though I had the top slimmed in. So now I have a slim fit upper and baggy pants… :/

I got a variety of items tailored and they all came out pretty great. I will note however that whenever I get my items tailored they are always short under my butt. This is because I have a big butt, but still, when you get things tailored shouldn’t they take that under consideration? Either way, I’d definitely go back to get my items tailored. It takes around 2 weeks to get your items back, but otherwise a pretty painless experience. Also note, I wanted to get a dress rezippered and he didn’t want to do it so… there was that. Pretty much if you want an easy tailor job this is your go-​to, otherwise probably try somewhere else. Thanks Master Tailor!

I’m not overly familiar with dry cleaners, but this place had decent reviews so I tried it out.
I had a peacoat dry cleaned and 2 pants hemmed.
The coat came back and there was still a small spot on it, but it wasn’t big enough for me to go all the way back for. Other than that it looked good.
The pants hems were done well, but I don’t think the guy measured me right. They are still kind of long.
This place wasn’t horrible, but I think I will try somewhere else next time.
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Update: see picture of my pant leg. Not sure if I did not notice this or if their stitching came undone, but either way I am not happy.

Master is the best.
Yes you will have to wait 2 – 3 weeks but maybe you shouldn’t have waited so long to get those pants hemmed, dude.
Anyway, I am 5’3″ so almost nothing fits me off the rack and Master Tailor has fixed so many pants and skirts for me. He does amazing work and is reasonably priced.
My grandmother was a seamstress at Saks for 35 years so my standards are very high and this guy does not disappoint.
Plus, he’s got free dum-​dums! Who doesn’t like candy?

Hands down the best tailor/​cleaners in Philadelphia. No nonsense here, just quality work and friendly service.
For those negative reviews, all suits cannot be tailored to satisfaction if they are not somewhat fitting in the first place. They made sure to tell me – in great detail – what could and couldn’t be done with mine. I will be taking anything and everything here from now on.

Big fan of Master Tailor.
I usually get my jeans hemmed here and they do a great job keeping my original hem so it looks like it was bought that way. On the expensive side, but definitely worth it.
I haven’t gotten much else done, but my boyfriend has gotten his suits and topcoat tailored here and he is usually pleasantly surprised by their work.
I really like the owner too. Very friendly if you are. Also very honest about what he thinks will work. They also have a cute shih tzu hanging out around the shop.