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Appointments are available from Tuesday to Saturday between 9:00 and 6:00; late appointments on Wednesday are available until 7:00. Enquire and request an appointment info@designandalter.com
Christmas closure from 20th Dec until 17th Jan 2025
To cancel or reschedule, please email or call 020 7498 4360. Last-minute cancellations may incur charges.
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BRIDAL ALTERATIONS
We alter all types of wedding dresses, bridal gowns, jumpsuits and bridal ensembles; Bride & Alter, sister company of Design & Alter
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Design & Alter, Alterations and Tailoring, London – old
Founded in 1992 and established over 30 years ago, Design & Alter is one of London’s leading tailoring and alteration services. The signature is attention to detail and quality. The international team of experienced tailors, seamstresses, and dressmakers specialises in the alterations and tailoring of complex designer clothes, evening wear, fake fur, and leatherwear. The team takes care of garments close to your heart and ensures the integrity of the original garment is kept, maintaining the original finish, style, and proportions.
Alterations – Dressmaking – Ladies’ Wear
Support to accomplish your style!
D&A perpetuate the tradition of seamstresses who have fitted dresses to perfection. Our team of dressmakers and seamstresses has extensive knowledge in dress alterations, including alterations of complex evening wear with bodice, boning and corsets. We offer dress alterations for day, cocktail, and evening dresses. Our commercial clients are high fashion brands like Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Hermes, only reiterating the experience and expertise D&A dressmakers have in couture and high-end fashion garments.
Ladies’ Wear Alterations
- Dress Alterations
- Evening Wear & Gown Alterations
- Coat Alterations
- Fur Coat Alterations
- Designer Alterations
- Jacket Alterations
- Trouser Alterations
- Jumpsuit Alterations
- Blouse & Top Alterations
- Jeans Denim Alterations
- Leather Alterations
- Made to Measure & Clothes Replication
- Restyling & Restoration of Garments
- Vintage Alterations
- Fitting consultations
- Professional measurement service
Wedding Dress & Bridal Alterations
Bride & Alter, the sister company of Design & Alter, specialises in bridal and wedding dress alterations. We tailor bespoke bridal wear, restyle and restore vintage bridal. For more information visit: www.brideandalter.com
Designer Alterations
The crucial Attention to Detail
Why are designer clothes more expensive than non-designer clothes? Sometimes it may be hard to comprehend. Apart from paying for the brand name, there often is irrefutably a difference in quality, detail and finish; beautiful not only from the outside. Look at the lining, look at the binding!
D&A offers a high-quality alteration service that maintains the finish, style and proportions to ensure that your garment looks, feels and fits ‘designer.’ Designer Alterations
Quality Control: Before any garment leaves the Workroom, it will be quality controlled – twice – rigorously!
Alterations – Tailoring – Men’s Wear
D&A is well known for its excellence in formal clothes alterations. We offer designer finishes, including working buttonholes and hand-sewn finishes. To ensure designer/original detailing and proportions – perhaps buckles and buttonholes of jackets and coats – we shorten sleeves from the shoulders. Sometimes small adjustments like taking in a waistline or the tapering and shortening of trouser legs can make all the difference in sharpening your look!
Men’s Wear Alterations
- Suit Alterations
- Jacket Alterations
- Trouser Alterations
- Coat Alterations
- Designer Alterations
- Jeans Denim Alterations
- Leather alterations
- Designer alterations
- Vintage Alterations
Additional Services
- Fitting consultations
- Vintage Restyling consultations
- Professional measurement service
- VIP Tailoring Services
Dress Re-Styling, Restoring, Preserving
‘I love Vintage!’
Sometimes it does not take much to update, renew or revamp the look and extend the life span of a garment. Lifting a waistline, readjusting the shoulders or shortening a hemline of vintage or an old favourite may just save the item from retirement. Quality clothes turn into classics and rarely run out of date. To enquire – 020 7498 4360.
Offer
*We offer a 20% discount on restyling and relining alterations to support more sustainability in fashion and to encourage wearing clothes longer.
Custom made: If your signature garment is falling apart, our made-to-measure department can replicate it in any chosen fabric and colour. Made to measure
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