AM Retouches

I had a wardrobe emergency that was looking very, very grim.
My absolute favorite article of clothing, a vintage 70s YSL silk blouse with a bold indigo and black print, got caught on some metal hook at Unilocal HQ and was shredded on the back. This happened in front of co-​workers. I tried to remain peppy and positive, but I was devastated.
When I got back home I shoved the blouse into a corner for months, denying the horror. I didn’t think my local seamstress could fix it, so I just waited for some sort of sign.
One day while shopping at Thanx God I’m a VIP, the owner mentioned that she had a great retoucheur in the neighborhood. She gave me the biz card and I realized that it was a place I walked past all of the time and never noticed. If she took her impeccable wares there then I surely could trust them with my favorite blouse.
They examined the damage, and assured me that we didn’t have to shorten or alter the design at all (I had envisaged some sort of amputation above the tear), but that they would sew a piece on the back and restitch the tear as cleanly as possible.
The results are magic! Unless you know what to look for you could never tell that the area had been damaged. For that, and that, alone, they merit 5 stars.