AAA Alterations Tuxedo Rentals

They ruined an expensive Hawaiian shirt I brought in to have the sleeves shortened. I gave them another chance and they botched the hems on four pairs of pants I hired them to hem. Maybe they’re good at ball gowns, but I don’t wear those. They don’t seem to have a sense of fit or style for casual or work clothes.

It has been 6 months since they ruined the pants on my new suit. The new suit pants needed alterations and hemming. The sizing went fine but the pants were hemmed to long. Not a problem, understandable and they remeasured. Next they were to short and the material had been cut off. Great, new suit lost. How hard is it to hem pants. Never go to this store.

I had a dress custom made for my sisters wedding through a personal friend… it was gorgeous. I decided after the wedding that I wanted the floor length gown turned into a silk maxi skirt… I sew, but didn’t want to deal with such a tedious fabric so I decided to take it to aaa to have a pro do it (aaa says they work on gowns, so I assumed she has experience working with thinner fabrics). $ 130 later, the skirt is returned to me with half the lining removed/​missing (the dress was fully lined, I’m guessing she lost the lining) you can see when I walk that the lining is at the knee, through the thin fabric and a Chicos tag sewn into my custom made dress (I don’t have one item of clothing from Chicos). The fabric at the top had been completely marred by the mistakes she made getting the waste band in and the fabric is totally puckered all the way around. It’s trash, now. It looks awful. I cannot believe a «professional alterer» could do such a terrible job.

I had a wonderful experience with AAA Alterations. I bought a second-​hand ball gown for $ 20, and took it to AAA to have it altered. Not only did she make the dress look brand new, she fixed small bead work that I was willing to let slide – and she did it as a courtesy. I am thrilled to say that my $ 20 ball gown looks wonderful, and I believe it will be a huge hit.
Apart from this, the lady who works there is incredibly sweet. I definitely recommend AAA for your alterations. I’ll likely use them again in the future.

I recently had my wedding gown altered here. The original top of my dress had delicate lace and beading covering my chest, shoulders, and upper back. It also had capped sleeves. I hated it. She altered my dress to have a sweetheart neckline, hemmed the length, and let it out for $ 230.00. I dropped it off a month before my wedding, and she had it ready in 3 weeks! When my dress was finished, it looked like an entirely different wedding gown. It looked absolutely beautiful.
I can’t write this review without mentioning why I came to AAA in the first place. I had gone to one of the top rated alterations businesses on Unilocal.They were going to do the exact same alterations to my dress as AAA did, but for $ 980.00! Also, they were quite unfriendly. I had lunch with a friend, and told her about my experience with the other tailor. Coincidently, she had a similar experience with the same tailor. That is when she suggested that I go to AAA. She had a bridesmaid gown altered by AAA and was impressed. I am so thankful my friend told me to go here!

They did a fantastic job on the sad, baggy bridesmaid dress I brought in a couple years ago (brides! Why do you pick sad, baggy bridesmaid dresses?). After the dress had been altered, it actually looked good on me (well, as good as an aqua, baggy, one-​strap potato sack from David’s Bridal was going to look). This, to me, was proof at how skilled they are here.
I’ve taken a couple simple and complicated alterations here since then. The one thing to keep in mind is that projects here may take a bit long, depending on how busy the owner is. If possible, I always make sure to bring my garment in a couple weeks in advance of when I need it, and, considering the high quality of the work, I’m happy to wait.
The owner is very honest about how long projects will take and how much they will cost and is happy to explain why a certain alteration costs as much as it does. She is also very friendly, even when the place is bursting with customers, making sure each person gets individual attention. And, if it’s a slow day, she’s lovely to chat with.
Oh, and they prefer cash or check as a payment method, FYI.

Great place. They actually make me shirts and pants from patterns they take from my favorite clothes. Aside from any hems or zippers they have done for me, I love how my clothes fit and feel after AAA Alterations/​Tuxedo Rentals works their magic. They even made two vests for my husband and everyone comments when he wears them. I can’t imagine going any place else.

Not impressed with AAA Alternations on Far West. I’m appalled that a simple button additional and pant hemming would be such a hassle. First, they couldn’t complete the project when they stated they would have it finished (One week). Second, I decided to take my clothes back to have another person do the alterations. They only cut my pant hem and charged me $ 10 for the cut. I paid the $ 10 as it probably was the best $ 10 spent to retrieve my clothes and use another seamstress.
As others have stated with their reviews, be forewarned.
I’m surprised this place had a positive review.

My son needed a tux for Prom. We were frustrated at the cost at the bigger stores, and since I consider proms just below weddings in terms of rackets, I wanted a good deal. AAA had a decent tux, with vest, shoes, and insurance, for $ 62. The only down side was that they did not have shoes in his size (so the cost went to $ 55). For a one night event for a teen, this place was perfect… The owner and her daughter were delghtful to work with, too!

I have gone to several tailors before but by far this place was the best in quality, price, and service. I had a wedding this May and needed the dress taken in and hemmed, so I tried AAA alterations and the first thing I admired was the wonderful customer service the lady provided. She professionally addressed the problems on my dress and gave a very low price for it compared to other tailors. Then she booked the order to be ready in two weeks which I thought was reasonable but i got a call a couple days earlier from her saying she finished it early. I was so excited so I rushed on over and when I tried it on, the fit was impeccable and the length of the dress was perfect. I was so impressed and I definitely recommend this place for any alterations. She is now my only seamstress I go to.

The lady my daughter spoke to has to have the ABSOLUTE worst customer service, manners, and TACT — EVER. We purchased a beautiful prom dress at David’s Bridal. The fee to alter it — a SIMPLE hem by about 2 inches, was going to be $ 45 at Davids. My daughter’s friend at church gave her a 15% discount and the citysearch reviews were all STARS. Dear daughter didn’t look at Unilocal. After being made to wait & then told estimates were NOT free because «it took up time» she was quoted $ 58.00 plus tax with her coupon. Then after some bickering the lady, ASSANEH (I had her spell it twice) relented and said ok $ 50 total. This is not a complicated dress. It’s a silky material that needs TWO inches removed.
We will not ever ever ever utilize this farce of a «tailor». I am picking up the phone to call Nelda’s and to call Nordstroms. All else fails, I will happily pay David’s Bridal to hem it.
Please, we are talking about a dress that cost UNDER $ 100. I am livid. Wish you could let me give this NEGATIVE stars.

Like Gretchen C, I was also surprised to see that this place had such negative reviews. I have had several things altered at AAA Alterations and I have always been very satisfied with their work!
I can’t remember the lady’s name who works there, but she is always friendly and upfront about your order. She is honest when she says that she is swamped (she usually is!) and sometimes it may take her a few days to do something simple like shorten a strap. But, she does a great job!
I even came in three days before my wedding with my maid of honor (who works as an engineer on an rig and couldn’t get her dress fitted)… they finished the alterations in less than 24 hours! The dress fit perfectly and the alterations were not expensive.

I needed a suit tailored — brought it in Monday and it was ready by Friday. The extensive work done on the jacket and pants looks great! I would definitely take another suit here to be done.

Whatever you do, DO NOT take your wedding dress here!
My mom picked up a card for this place at her eye doctors since I was looking for an alterations person for my wedding dress. I called and made an appointment ahead of time, and showed up ready to have the dress professionally assessed. When I got there, the lady at the desk (who I later found out was the tailor) didn’t greet me or tell me where to change (although it was obvious). I didn’t want to just barge in, so I waited for a good 15 minutes while the tailor argued with another customer about what HE wanted done to HIS pants right in front of me. She then NOTICED me standing there holding a huge white garment bag and told me to go get changed.
I get dressed and then proceed to stand there waiting in my wedding dress for another 15 minutes while she continued to argue with the same man about his pants. I should have left at that point.
She finally comes over to me and says, «OK, what do you want done to it». I figured as the professional she would be able to tell, but hey, who am I to know anything? So I tell her and she starts pinning and unpinning all over my dress with the really big safety pins. The dress has a chiffon overlay and I cringed every time she shoved the enormous pin though the delicate material. She then told me that altering the biased-​cut chiffon would be very difficult. I asked her if she was saying that she couldn’t do it, and she said no but that she just wanted me to know it would be difficult. Okay…
So it’s finally all pinned and ready for alterations, I get redressed and head back to the counter. It’s there that I notice a tiny sign at the register that says, «Cash or check only». Really? In 2011, you can’t get a credit card machine? She rang up the ticket for $ 120. Of course, I had forgotten my check book and didn’t have the cash, so she settled for $ 30 then and I would bring the rest with me when I came in for my second fitting. We then scheduled my second fitting and she told me to call her 3 or 4 days before the fitting. When I asked why, she said to remind her to work on the dress… again, I should have taken the dress and left at that point. But I tried to scrap together my faith in her, and I left my ONLY wedding dress in her hands.
After consulting with several friends, I decided to go get the dress back from her a few days later. I called and told her to have the dress ready to go when I got there. It was, with all pins removed, and plenty of safety pin holes in the delicate chiffon. She refunded my money and then lectured me on having a professional alter the dress. She warned me to not have it altered by anyone else and that I should bring it back to her in a month or two.
Enter the talent known as the Nordstrom’s alterations department. Known for their customer service, I knew that if I chose to use them, I would feel much more confident leaving my dress in their hands. I went in for my first fitting and the tailor noticed several snags in the chiffon that I assume is from the previous tailor considering the dress has been carefully protected and hardly worn (only to try on). When I told her what the other tailor wanted to do to the dress, she told me that since the chiffon is cut on the bias, those alterations would have caused major puckering. She offered her professional opinion and made a few tweeks here and there with thin, tiny straight pins.
I even expected to pay a little extra for the Nordstrom’s alterations, but when she told me the price for the few changes, it turned out to be significantly less than AAA. And I certainly don’t have the enormous feeling of dread about leaving my dress with them. They are even going to steam, press and clean the dress for me.
Don’t use this place. Just don’t.

This place is HORRIBLE!!! I took a dress in for alterations January 5 and it was promised February 7! I should have turned around and went elsewhere then because that is a ridiculously long time, but I left my dress since it was recommended by the bridal salon.
I called them on February 5 to see if my dress was ready and the lady asked met verify what I wanted done! Needless to say I was irate because nobody called me if there was an issue. Long story short I ended up picking up my dress that day and then she wanted to charge me more for work she had not done! The dress was open in the back and there was no way I was paying for that. I ended up taking my dress to another tailor to fix what she screwed up. There were also make up stains on the back of the dress near the zipper when I picked it up and I know it wasn’t mine, because I don’t wear makeup!
If you want quality work do NOT go here!!!

FFF Alterations is more like it. I used Unilocal to select them and took two jackets in one week ago today. I emphasized that I was leaving the country tomorrow and needed them today. They told me no problem, in fact they said it would be done before but I told them not to worry, I wouldn’t have time to pick it up until today.
I just left and now have my jackets back with ABSOLUTELY NO WORK DONE TO THEM! They wrote down the pick up date wrong (after the fact as proven by my pick up receipt) and had done no work. Sure, they offered to finish it up and I could pick it up 30 minutes later, but I refused because THE WEEK BEFORE the woman told me she had to charge me extra because of how complicated a job it would be due to the need to remove zippers on the motorcycle jacket and adjust some appliques that were on the sleeve on the other. Now she wanted to rush through my job and give me poor quality because of their mistake?
She offered a discount, but a whole hell of a lot of good it does me when I needed them for my trip that I am taking tomorrow! Now I have to take them with me and hope the hotel can help me get it altered for the events I needed them for.
DO NOT USE AAA ALTERATIONS AND TUXEDO if you actually want the work done.

They have a nice new website with coupons for alterations or tuxedo rental. The ladies who work here are so sweet and accommodating. I needed… okay…I WANTED my jeans hemmed fast. They did it without a rush charge.

When I needed a pair of pants hemmed quickly, I found this shop.
Now, I did feel like I was cheating on my East Austin ladies, but it was only pants, I swear! Anyhow, my new place featured a pleasant seamstress from Chile, a large changing area (at least 2 dressing rooms), a proper fitting platform, seating for The Boyfriend Unit, and very quick turn around. The work is well-​done and the price was right.
Highly recommended. They have coupons on their website, too.