Annas Tailoring & Alterations

I am visiting SF and snagged a favorite knitted dress. I thought the dress might be ruined, but Anna fixed it in minutes. :)

Thanks to this place! I love Anna, she is so talented. She can turn clothing to be so flattering! I’m happy to find this place in SF. Prices are not cheap but they do do a good job!

If you need dress or special event couture redone or repaired– Anna is the one. However for me, their alteration work on my 2 super luxury men’s leather coats was simply outstanding. I found Anna and her staff thru Burberry and Barneys as she does all their alterations with leather. She is able to take the time to get it right even if a second minor alteration is needed.

This place is hot, cramped, stuffy, and full of people giving you dirty looks. There’s no entrance, you just walk into a closet full of people. The space to try on clothes barely has enough room to stand in, and is filled with a bunch of crap. No one seems to really care that you’re there.
Besides the bad experience, she also ruined my dress. she didn’t take it in enough in some places, and then hemmed the dress too short so now I can’t wear it. She was gruff and pushy and I felt extremely unwelcome the entire time I was there.

My husband and I decided on a low key San Francisco City Hall wedding. Even though it was just a ceremony, I still wanted the perfect dress. I found one that was almost perfect, it just needed some altering to the bust and it needed to be taken in. Anna and her team did an excellent job!
I found a lace Marchesa dress that came to the knee with an organza sash. There was only one left and it was a size too big. It also had a bow/​flower thing on the chest that I was not a fan of. But I loved the potential, and it came the closest to my idea of a non-​wedding wedding dress, so I got it. I brought it to Anna to work her magic. She removed the bow/​flower at the chest, and took it in so that it fit like a glove. It turned out beautifully! In addition to her talent, I also like Anna’s personality — she is stylish and fun!
My husband also got a suit 2 days before the wedding that needed to be tailored. Anna made fun of him for waiting till the last minute, but tailored the suit perfectly in a short amount of time.
I highly recommend her and will definitely be using her for any future tailoring.

Anna did the tailoring for my wedding dress. She did not alter the boning on the bust, even though she had to bring in the waist (including the top half of the dress) about 2 inches. I don’t know why she didn’t the bust wouldn’t need altering or that she could fix it by adding padding. I went to her three times to make adjustments, yet the bust never fit properly. I wouldn’t recommend her for complex tailoring, but I think she would be good for simple fixes.

Anna did an excellent job on taking in my backless wedding dress and adjusting the straps. Because of the dress being backless, there was little support for the ladies, but after Anna was done it fit like a glove and plenty of support. The top is lace covered which I am sure is tricky to work with, and it still looks beautiful.
I brought the dress in quite last minute so needed a quick turn around, and Anna had it done within a week. The cost was very reasonable — $ 150.
Anna is fun and cheeky — I definitely recommend her.

I got referred to Anna from the Chanel boutique and she did an excellent and amazing job altering my tweed jacket

I’ve been going to Anna for the past couple of years to have alterations done on my designer jackets. She will do exactly what you’re looking for in an alteration with a smile on her face. She’s the only tailor in town that I will personals trust with my Chanel alterations and is very reasonably priced!

I want to point out that Anna did not provide wedding dress alterations for me, here is why:
1) She didn’t offer to help me get my dress on — which was a challenge to do by myself
2) The space is extremely cramped
3) There is a heating vent right where you try the dress on so as I stood there for what felt like quite awhile after the struggle to put my dress on, I started sweating in my dress. I run very cold so it was HOT standing there
4) Finally Anna gets off the phone and apologizes for keeping me waiting
5) I ask her if there is a charge to pin, she says no. Then she tells me, for a dress she had complimented the simplicity of, that it will be $ 350 — $ 400 to hem, bustle and make the top smaller. She was my first visit to an alterations person so maybe I’ll find this is normal, but I only paid $ 400 for the dress so I really hope not.
6) THIS IS WHY I’M WRITING THIS REVIEW — so I told her that was above my budget. She had someone else she wanted to get into the room I was in so now she is very hands on and once I have the dress off and am trying to do the eye hook on the collar to hang it back up (and believe me, I am HOT and doing this fast to not prolong the heat) she comes in and literally tries to grab my dress out of my hands saying that she’ll do that for me. I tell her to please wait since I was just in the process of finishing the eyehooks (it would have taken longer for her to start that process over) and then, like an idiot, I let her take my dress. Well she grabs it and starts dragging part of it ON THE FLOOR as she’s walking and so I say «you’re dragging it on the floor and then, YOU ARE STEPPING ON MY DRESS» to which she responds that she did not step on it. No attempts to be nice or apologize. Then she puts the bag on it sideways with part of the dress still on the floor, which I grab and pick up off the floor and insist that I take over.
Maybe Anna is the best tailor in the world. But based on this experience I would definitely not recommend her.

Anna did an amazing job altering my wedding dress.
I purchased a wedding dress with a long train. Since I was getting married outside in Kauai, I wanted to remove it. It wasn’t an easy hem based on the style of my dress. The bridal shop that I purchased the dress from gave me an estimate of $ 250 just to hem it. I brought it to Anna and it only cost $ 100. When I got back the dress, it was absolutely perfect. Highly recommend this place.

Anna did a beautiful job hemming my wedding dress. I was so nervous to leave the dress with somebody I had never done business with before, but Anna was excellent. The dress looked untouched (and the length was perfect).
She also altered my groom’s pants, doing a great job.

I came here with designer wedding dress in tow and nervously hoped for the best… I should have never worried at all! Anna was fantastic and did a stellar job on the alterations. Not only did she make the dress fit like a dream, but she did some customizations as well. The top of the dress had a panel of heavy beading that I was not happy about it. I wanted to remove it and then buy a belt to wear with the dress. Anna was able to remove the beading and then re-​purpose it as the belt I had hoped for. It looked amazing! In addition to the great work, their pricing was extremely reasonable. I’ll be using Anna’s for other alterations in the future!

Came here to fix my dress, and they were prompt, professional, always picked up the phone, and did a wonderful job. Yes I have called around, other alteration places pushed me way past my schedule and charged an arm and a leg. At Anna’s, my dress was ready in 5 days, it was very affordable, and I felt that people really cared! Highly attentive, I felt like my needs were met, and I received compliments on my dress :) Thank you! Highly recommended!

The hem on my beautiful Hermes scarf that a relative gave me years ago was becoming unraveled. Tried to fix it myself and finally gave up — it’s very delicate work and frustratingly time consuming. After calling a few places regarding hemming, and getting a vague «maybe», I called Hermes. They recommended Anna, who is their tailor of choice. Her shop did a fantastic job — tiny uniform stitching on silk — no snags or slip-​ups. Anna and her assistants were absolutely charming, and the price was much cheaper than buying a new Hermes scarf. Thanks, Anna!

I wish I could give a rating of 10. Anna was fabulous!
I brought my designer wedding dress to Anna at the recommendation of a bridal salon near by. I had purchased my wedding dress when I was visiting my brother in Colorado and so couldn’t get the dress altered there and other bridal salons in SF wouldn’t do it because I didn’t purchase my dress from them. I saw Anna about 10 weeks before the wedding. At the time I was working in NYC and living in SF and only coming home every 2 weeks.
The first time I went to see Anna, a customer was leaving and when I told her I had a wedding dress to be altered, she said Anna could do anything, that was a good sign… and now after having my dress completed and amazing, I have to concur.
After trying on the dress and discussing the changes with Anna, I told her I felt chunky and wanted to lose weight, she said ‘no problem, come back in 4 weeks and we’ll begin then’. I was worried about the time to do all the alterations (very fancy dress!), but she was confident she could get it done. 4 weeks later, I came back thinner and ready to go. She then pinned the changes on me. 2 weeks later I came back and all changes were hand stitched and the dress was perfect (I want to make it clear that the dress had lots of boning and lots of beading on the bust, waist and the back… and it was all done). We discussed making it tighter as I was still losing weight… and this was never an issue for Anna. We talked about a bustle. I was undecided about what I wanted (I can be very fussy sometimes), so she said bring a friend. A week later my friend came with me and Anna showed her the 2 different bustles we decided on and my friend recommended one. 2 weeks later the dress was completed bustle and all… I only actually needed 2 actual fittings, she was fantastic and the dress was fabulous. It fit exactly as I wanted and I had described to Anna and everyone at the wedding said it was a fabulous dress and it was… I tella having a perfectly fitting wedding dress makes you feel comfortable (not tugging here or there) and just completes everything on the day.
On top of that… at our first meeting she gave me a quote for the changes to the bodice as well as hemming the many many layers of the skirt. During one of the fittings with shoes on, the hem was perfect as is. So when I picked up the dress Anna gave me a huge discount because she didn’t work on the hem and I didn’t even have to ask!
I can’t thank Anna and her staff enough for what they did with my dress.
I definitely recommend bringing your wedding dress to Anna. She alters all sorts of other items of clothing as well. I have found my new alterations person!

I had a halloween costume that tore and needed a little extra material and I was turned away at Cable Car Tailors and David’s Tailor Shop, but I was warmly welcomed at Anna’s, she was very nice and friendly and charged me a very good price. I will definitley go back here for all my tailoring needs, never again to those other places.