Pepe the Tailor

Pepe is my Tailor for more than 12 years. We trust him and we like his service

I had two terrible experiences with this tailor. I brought in a leather jacket to have some military patches sewn onto it. Pepe told me it would be finished that Tuesday, so on Tuesday, I went in to pick it up. He told me it wasn’t ready. He then told me it would be ready on Thursday. On Thursday I called. He said his sewing machine was broken. Finally, two weeks after I brought it in for this simple job, I called and he said the jacket was ready. I went in and he showed me the patches. He had over-​sewn one of them. He cut the over-​sewn thread out and now I have two small holes in my leather jacket next to the patches. Even after all of this, he still charged me the original quoted price. I decided to give him a second try with altering a sport coat of mine and the same thing happened. The date promised kept getting pushed back farther and farther, although the work was of better quality. If you are in a hurry, or want quality work done ON THE TIME PROMISED, I don’t recommend this tailor. My overall impression is that he is EXTREMELY disorganized.

Pepe is an artist. l have watched him work and his work is careful and beautiful. But he is so good that he is swamped with work. You got to be patient, but he is worth it.

Pepe is my tailor for 4 years now mainly for hemming my designer jeans with original bottoms and never been disappointed with his work, yes he lacks promptness but at least I know he does a fantastic job.
I have learned to be very clear with him on when I want my items to be ready by and I usually give him one additional day from the day he promise or call him before I drive over.

THE WORST TAILOR IN THE SOUTH BAY. Sorry Pepe, but it’s true. My hubby and all his groomsmen got their suits tailored here for our wedding. Granted it was 3 years ago, but the horrific experience is still fresh in my mind. My hubby had to take his suit back 5 – 6 times because Pepe either could not get it right or missed his deadline to get the work done. On top of botching up the hubby’s suit, he mixed up two of the groomsmen’s suits!!! The fit was all wrong, and those groomsmen wound up using their suits as rags after the wedding. I seriously have contemplated calling and getting our money back.
DON’T EVER GO TO THIS GUY.

I went to Pepe to alter a suit. He did a good job and had it done in one day. I was impressed.

Peter has been doing our alterations for numerous years. I always call ahead of time before going down there to not waste a trip and they have always been ready. I do know if you do not call and tell him you are going to be there you might get disapointed but his workmanship has always been tops and he is extremely courteous and professional and priced fairly.

I have been going there for many years. This is the story about Peter.
He runs his business in the following manner. You stop by with your alterations, he quotes a price and a date. He won’t issue a receipt or a price quote. It is all on his word. If you need the items back on that day, go and sit down and wait for them.
If you are not pressed for time, call him and tell him you will be there in – X – minutes. When you get there, he’ll tell you how much longer. In any case, by now you have realized he works for you while you are there. He loves to be watched while he works. He does a good job.
He doesn’t really need your business… He is overloaded with work. So if this is not for you, don’t put him down. just go somewhere else.
Peter, thanks for your work over the years.

Not to give my age away, but Pepe (aka Peter) has been my tailor for well over 20 years when he used to be the tailor in the mens suits department at Bullock’s (now Macy’s) in Del Amo. My whole family knows Pepe, ever since my Mom had worked at Bullock’s in the china, crystal and silver department.
My recent pair of new slacks that he tailored in the length, the hem started to unravel on both pant legs. So I took it to Pepe for a re-​do. He told me that it would be ready on Monday. So on Monday, I was going out to lunch with a couple of my friends that day, and thinking they would be ready, I left my car running just for a quick pick up.
There was one customer in his shop as I walked in. Pepe was in the back ironing a couple of pairs of jeans for her. He acknowledges me. Still thinking it won’t take but a couple of minutes, he continues to iron another pair of jeans. Finally done with the 3 pairs of jeans for this customer, she decided to pay with her credit card. By now, 10 minutes have passed and my friends are still waiting outside in my car sitting idol with the engine running. Pepe is clearly having trouble with his credit card machine to close out this sale. Finally after around 5 minutes, he’s successful with the credit card machine and sends the customer off.
Then after 15 minutes later after he knew I was waiting to pick up my pants that he promised me on Monday, he tells me that my pants are NOT READY and to wait a COUPLE OF MINUTES! WTH?! I asked him why he didn’t tell me this when he saw me come in like 15 minutes ago?! No response. I left ticked off.
A few days later, I go back, pick up my pants. He does not say he’s sorry for the other day. And on top of that, he gives me a look like he did me a favor.
Well Pepe (or Peter), based on the reviews here on Unilocal,you are clearly not providing great customer service. Sorry, but you are FIRED!
There’s other tailors out there that would love to have my business and will provide way better customer service. ADIOS AMIGOS, you just lost a long term valued customer.

i guess the key to my successful visit according to the other reviews was not leaving my item to be picked up at a later date. i brought in a pair of pants to be altered on a suit i had just purchased for a wedding. Pepe asked when i needed it by and i told him i had 5 days. he told me if i didnt mind waiting a few minutes that he would do it for me while i was still there. it saved me a trip back and it took 10 minutes and cost $ 8. i was satisfied.

Horrible Service. I gave him an expensive Ralph Lauren shirt with a hole in the bottom side of the sleeve to be fixed in February 2010. I was patient in getting back the shirt but it never got fixed. I came back in a few days nothing, a week nothing, a month nothing, another month nothing. Come November 2009 he told me put it in storage cause he couldn’t find it in his shop. I have him time to look for it nothing. Every week nothing but he told me he put it in another storage location. BS… Its January 2010 a year later and he has nothing and won’t give me his last name. This a case for the courts. I understood he was slow. He always misquoted and was always late but I thought I could live with that. Apparently his lies and losing your clothes are part of his game too. He should have just coughed up the $$ for the shirt when I asked him instead of lying to me. This has to go to court to get resolved.

Okay, PEPE is ridiculously reasonable. I had my 2 piece suit, a really nice one, altered at his place. The sleeves needed to be shortened and the design of the pants was like grandpa’s so I asked him to make it straight and modern looking. WOW !!! The sleeves were perfect and buttons reattached in the right place, and also the pants !!! It was perfect !!! It looked «modern» exactly the way I wanted it. I think the sleeves were $ 15 and the pants was $ 20 or so. I went to a place in Sherman Oaks who did a similar job but they charged me $ 100 and did a bad job. Today, I took in my summer suits I bought at Macy’s but the pants was an inch short. Sure enough, PEPE fixed it for me for ridiculously affordable price of. $ 8!!! Who does alteration for $ 8 these days !!! PEPE is the best !!!

Absolutely HORRIBLE. I just got back from there after trying to pick up my drapes for the 4^th time. I dropped off the draps on Thursday, and he told me they’d be ready by Saturday or Monday. I went in on Tuesday (gave him several extra days) and he said they weren’t done. And to come back the next day. I came back the next day (Wednesday) and they weren’t done. He said come back the next day. I didn’t come back on Thursday, and I went in today (Friday)… to find out that they were not done. He asked me to wait and I stayed there and watched him sew them.
They were done nicely, and he charged me $ 10, which is fine. But, that is REALLY unprofessional to send me running around because he is not on top of things. And, that happens every time I go to Pepe. Needless to say, today was my last day setting foot in that store!

I’d been going to Pepe the Tailor for about 6 months and had been happy with his work. But the last two times I dropped items off, they weren’t ready on the promised date. (I’d let him pick the date both times. The most recent time I even went the day AFTER on purpose – only to find out the work still wasn’t done.) If you use this shop, I’d definitely recommend calling to confirm your items are ready before you make a trip only to be disappointed.

I went to Pepe the Tailor and the pricing was pretty reasonable. I had two pairs of cotton twill slacks and a pair of jeans to be hemmed. The slacks turned out pretty good. But the jeans I asked for the hems to be hemmed with the original bottoms, when I came to pick up the jeans I noticed the hem was a little crooked. The total cost for the 3 items was $ 27. I’d go back to him because of his pricing, but for jeans I think I might consider other tailors.

Cheap! He’ll hem your designer jeans with the original bottoms for $ 10! And he does a great job might I add.