G & T Custom Tailoring

I had gone to G & T to have a basic hemming done on a black maxi dress that was a bit too long. When I went to pick up the dress two days after the ready date, I was told they accidentally gave my dress to someone else, without checking if they had the receipt (which I brought with me). Why even bother running a business that uses a ticket system if you’re not going to put it into practice?! Goodbye, dress.

I had a very positive experience at G&T. I needed to get have a bridesmaid dress taken in and hemmed. The dress was rather complicated because the bodice was ribbed and there were layers of skirt to hem. After receiving a ridiculous quote from another tailor, I called around and discovered that the going rate for a job like this was closer to $ 70-​$ 80. Dirce confirmed a price within that range and I arranged to come in for a fitting. She quickly took my measurements. It was a very pleasant experience. Dirce gave me a reasonable time-​frame for completion, which she maintained (I believe the dress was ready in about a week). I was also able to pay by check.
I would certainly recommend G&T for a similar job and suspect it will be my go-​to place should I need another dress altered.

Pro — local family business. quick turn around
Con– no receipts, no tags, no signoffs, cash only.
my bf dropped off 2 suits, i went to pick them up and they told me he only dropped off 1 (had they have an order history of some kind of documentation, this would have been mitigated.) they told me he only got 1 suit and it turns out (when we are already in NY for a wedding) it’s not even HIS!
they are very nice people, but very unorganized. Also, their craftmanship is not that good either when it comes to tailoring a suit. I would trust them for hemming and little things, but i wouldn’t take your $ 500 suit there for full alterations…

I ordered a really simple hem — it ended up looking terrible. The stitching was not only uneven but the threads were mis-​matched. Really un-​professional job.

G & T is great! They are nice, accommodating, and amazing at their craft. I had to have a bridemaid dress made last month. Not only did it turn out beautiful, but it was done within weeks and it cost less than any other place in the Boston area.
Even when I wanted to make a couple of changes after it was already finished, she let me come back whenever I wanted to have them done. I was very pleased with the whole experienced. Highly recommended!

She did an excellent job altering a lined, long plaid wool skirt for me from a size 14 to a 6, with a hidden side zipper and the plaid on the bias. I took the skirt to a tailor first, who told me he couldn’t do it and advised me to look for a seamstress who would take in both sides of the skirt and not just one. She did this, and the skirt follows the curve of my hips, and the corners on the plaid are all matched up nicely along the seam, and the side zipper lies perfectly flat too. If you are a woman looking to have a dress altered to fit your curves just right, this is where you want to go. I intend to take a pile of other stuff here.

They are amazing (at least for bridesmaid dresses — I can’t speak to anything else)! The first time I went here, they took in and re-​beaded a dress in a week and you couldn’t tell it had been altered at all… but it’s the second time I used G&T that they really won my heart: from start to finish, everything about my bridesmaid dress was a disaster (the store insisted on order it four sizes too big and when I took it to a tailor to fix [I didn’t think I could make it to G&T during business hours], it came back with a crooked bust line, frayed hemline, and was still far too big because that tailor said it was a «hard job»).
So I call G&T on the Thursday afternoon before Columbus Day weekend (which is apparently one of the most popular weekends for weddings) and the wedding is on Sunday. The woman on the phone tells me not to worry and to come in after work with my dress (they were closed but still working so I just had to knock). The lovely woman in the back comes out and pins me up as the other woman translates to me that the dress had been butchered but they promise to have the dress ready on Saturday. Before I leave, the woman that speaks English tells me that she is bringing in her friends (presumably also seamstresses) to work around the clock because there were so many dresses needed for the weekend. She tells me that the women «need their dresses» and hey will do what it takes to get all of them done. She wasn’t saying to make me feel bad at all — it was more just letting me know that even though they were busy (there were dresses hanging all over the store with pins in various places), I shouldn’t worry.
Low and behold, Saturday rolls around and the dress is ready. The dress isn’t perfect but it’s wearable/​presentable (mostly just felt a little weird in some places but looked fine in pictures) and given the fact that they had two days to essentially remake the dress (I guess the other tailor had ruined the boning and it had to be replaced), I felt like it was a miracle. The only thing I could possibly complain about is that I was supposed to pick it up at 3pm and it wasn’t ready until 5pm but I still got the dress with 24 hours to spare before the ceremony and they had told me to call before coming down to pick it up so I didn’t even waste a trip… and I am SO not complaining about because I got the dress — that’s all that mattered to me. The cherry on top of all this was that it only cost me $ 75 (rush fee included)…that’s HALF of what I paid the other woman to destroy my dress.
After this long review, you can probably tell that I highly recommend G&T — hopefully none of you have to experience something like I did but if you do, G&T is a tailor you can trust to get the job done well when you really need it!

I don’t care how much of a master tailor you are if you don’t bother showing up for work… Called and they told me they open at 8a. Got there at 8:15 and they’re closed, sign on the door says that they actually open at 9a. Ugh. So I bike off to work and leave mid day to ride back over to Union Square only to find that although the sign on the door says open and it’s 3:15p, there is no one there and the door is locked. Imagine I would have even more peeved if I’d driven around in circles looking for parking (as is apt to happen in Union Square) only to arrive to an orange OPEN sign and a locked door.
They wasted my time and lost a customer. A very short customer, who would have brought them lots of pants for hemming… I won’t bother with this place again.

Germano is a «master tailor.» Well, I am not completely in the know about what that means, but photos on the wall indicate he did some tailoring when Tiger Woods was around at a golf tournament, and he’s done wonders with the items I’ve brought in. One was a sleeveless linen drop waisted sack dress (think late 80’s, yes I hang on to stuff too long) and he turned it into a versatile number that I can wear to work with a little heels and a cardigan or to the beach in flip flops. I was delighted.