Zip & Tuck

These wonderful ladies run the best tailors shop in the West Midlands. If you are looking for an excellent tailor/​seamstress, it’s well worth the trip if you’re in Birmingham. I’ll lay you a wager that you can’t find a service as impeccable with prices as reasonable as Zip & Tuck.
We first came across them when my 6’5″ tall, lanky husband (sorry baby!) bought a namebrand suit on the cheap, and needed it altered to fit his svelte frame. There was a complex bit of stitching at the back, so I wasn’t able to use my trusty thimble on it with aplomb.
We brought it into Zip & Tuck, and hey presto! 3 days later and £15 later, they’d not only taken in the back seamlessly (ha!), they’d lengthened the arms and trousers. He tried it on, and it looked like it had been individually tailored.
Our second experience was with the fine ladies (who are trained in Costume Design and Fine Tailoring) saving our wedding day. And this is all true.
I had bought a couture wedding dress from an American designer. It was made to fit my figure perfectly, snug, but not too snug — just right. I hadn’t tried the dress on in about a month, since my last fitting, when, a few days before the wedding, I tried it on to show some friends.
The dress was huge at the waist, and the consequent gapping there was causing the thin straps to pull down against my shoulder blades, rubbing them raw and creating angry looking red skin (non tres sexy). I had, apparently, lost some weight in the run up to the wedding, making my fits-​like-​a-​glove dress into a bride’s nightmare.
In a blind panic I wailed at my then-​fiancé to help, sew it with his teeth if necessary. He rushed the dress over to Zip & Tuck with literally a day and a half to spare. We brought the dress in at noon, and by 5pm, with a rush job done perfectly, the dress was done.
They had even altered the straps slightly, which I hadn’t asked them to do, and helped the dress fit even better.
End result was a happy bride, and thus, a happy groom (shrieking bride = deaf groom).
If you’ve been putting off an alteration or button catastrophe, stop by Zip & Tuck. The competent job will make you feel like a gazillion bucks.