How much $ to alter clothes?

EliseB0323

Anyone know (ballpark figure) how much it costs to have a tailor take in a pair of pants or a blouse?  How many sizes down can you have something altered?

joseysbride

No idea on that type of tailoring, but just to get my pants hemmed on the bottom (pretty simple) it costs $18 a pair.  So I can't imagine it would be super cheap if they were doing something extensive.

shopgirl_07

Any more than a size, maybe 2, is going to require major reworking and will not be worth the cost. I recently had the pleats taken out of the back of a casual summer dress and it was $40. To get the sleeves on my blazer hemmed it was $25.

AnnapolisLari

Since plain old hemming can range from $10-25, I am going to say that more extensive alterations will be $25-50ish.

You can only take something in so far before it starts deforming the clothes (EX: the rise of the pants can be affected)