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M here. I get most nice / biz casual shirts and jeans tailored. I was recommended a good tailor. About 60$ per item +/-. It’s 100% worth it imo. Everything will look so much better and fit your body properly. I have broad shoulders so I find shirts in particular are worth it.
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Female here, I go for convenience and my dry cleaner has a tailor there, I pay about $10/item. I believe this is a somewhat common combo for dry cleaners to have alterations available.
For both male and female imo all dress pants should be tailored to your work shoes and bring in any blazers you haven’t had tailored to be fit for you.
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I should revise— I’m getting alterations* not tailoring, and there’s a significant difference in cost. I’m getting simple leg length, sleeve adjustments, if my alteration affects needing something else shaped or tucked elsewhere it would go up in price. DC area.
A tip for OP would also be to shop at places that offer free alterations with purchase, I believe Nordstrom is free with purchase, and a small fee for more intense tailoring. Lululemon also does free pant alterations.
I’m a woman, but my husband has used a tailor for years. Really high end suits almost always *have* to be tailored - the pants are not hemmed and the jacket sleeves rarely fit right off the rack. A good tailor will also usually do a small nip and tuck for the waist of the pants or the body of the jacket. The only thing that usually should
not get tailored are the shoulders of the jacket - those need to fit right from the get go or else the jacket won’t hang right.
I would not go to my dry cleaner for alterations. High end clothing stores usually have an in-house tailor.
Expect to pay $20 simple items and much higher for more involved tasks.
M here. Your local dry cleaner can probably do simple tasks for you, like pant legs. Jackets and shirt sleeves take more skill. Tailoring makes the world of difference if you are't a conventional size and you want jacket sleeves to hit perfectly on the wrist, and pant legs to sit right. People notice when your clothes fit. It's a subtle flex.
If you need everything tailored because it's hard to find something off the rack that fits you - like you're a bigger, shorter guy who wears shirts untucked, or you're tall and thin and have to buy baggy jackets to get the right length, then consider made to measure services.
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F here, and would not recommend going to a dry cleaner for anything other than hemming your pants, and maybe not even that.
Example, based on my shape, my tailor hems the back of my pants slightly shorter than the front so that the hem is even when I'm wearing it. She gives specific recommendations on changes that would make the clothing fit better, not just what I might ask for.
As basic as it sounds, I would look on Google for tailor-only options and look at the reviews. My tailor comes up as excellent but not very cheap.