Irina’s Stitch In Time

My business Top Shelf has been recommending Irina’s to our customers in need of dress alterations for a long time, more so now that we have stopped offering that service. Irina is a talented and well trained specialist in women’s dressmaking and can also handle men’s alterations. She has at least 30 years experience, and loves her job, even if it means sewing through the night to accommodate rush work.

This is my second time seeing Irina for an important occasion.
I went to Irina’s for a bridesmaid dress that actually needed a lot of alteration. She’s not the cheapest, but she’s the best quality I’ve seen in the whole city and surrounding area.
I took my wedding dress to her which I bought for $ 50 online and she’s redesigning that as well. As always, she does such a phenomenal job and she’s SO charming!
I’d recommend Irina to anyone who needed a job well done.

My husband needed a pair of pants to be hemmed. She was closed on Monday (fine), he dropped them off on Tuesday first thing in the morning and needed them by the next evening. Her response, «I usually charge $ 15 but since you need them by tomorrow, I’ll get them done for you today for $ 30». He said I don’t need them tonight, I need them tomorrow evening. She was still stoic on her response, «No, it’s $ 30».
So let me ask you Unilocalers, you need something done and as a business owner, instead of doing it properly in a timely fashion (it’s literally a 12 minute job) after seeing you need it, doubles the price. Would you return? I know I won’t!
Goodbye Irina! Stitch Yourself in Time, because I will no longer be returning nor referring!

I was very disappointed with my experience here. I read the reviews and knew that she may not be the best book keeper, but being that her shop is down the street from where I live, I thought it would be worth the extra price… boy was I wrong. I brought in two pairs of pants to be shortened and a purse to have some stitching fixed. I was told that the pants would be $ 15 each and the purse would be less than a pair of the pants. None of the stitching required opening the seems of the purse, they were more cosmetic repairs where the stitching was coming off of some edging work. when I picked up my items she ended up charging me $ 25 for the purse repair. This was over what she bid and the work was not completed. There was still a large area of undone stitching that was even frayed. This happened to be one of the areas of my bag that I had pointed out when I dropped the bag off.
She said she was sorry I was not happy but she did work and the work I asked for. she did not do a good job with my bag and she over charged me for the work. Although she is close to where I live, I will go elsewhere from now on. She overcharged me for crappy work, and then stood there looking at me like I was the one in the wrong.
If you would like to work with someone who is ethical, proud of their work and takes care of their customers… go somewhere else and avoid the frustration.

I won’t lie and say shes cheap. Shes well worth it though :)
Best service and very high quality.

Irena’s work is very good but her bookkeeping is very poor. I was over-​charged $ 100 more than the other bridesmaids. Luckily I was «tacky» enough to complain about the price to the bride or I would have ended up paying more than my fair share. When I brought it up, the bride told me that Irena was also trying to over-​charge her for the flower girl’s dress. Weddings are expensive enough without charging hundreds of dollars more than what was originally discussed. Keep your own records and receipts when dealing with this person. She does not accept credit cards, so receipts become even more important for record keeping.

Irina helped me out at the last minute with a jacket alteration. I was in the wedding party and didn’t have time to get it altered before hopping a plane to Minneapolis.
I crashed through the airport, dove into a rental car, blazed down the roads to get to Irina’s and she was able to help me out.
Alterations were performed flawlessly and she only charged me a nominal alteration fee and a rush charge. She could have soaked me for a lot more and I would have paid it.