He’s since brought in several more pairs of pants for adjustments and jeans for patching. Before he could say anything, the woman at the counter suggested he get the “Thom Browne look.” A week later, the pants came back with the hem slightly above his ankle and a neat, subtle cuff (which, six years later, has yet to come undone). So he brought a pair of ill-fitting trousers with an unfinished hem into the shop.

“I figured if both of those brands use G&G, then I should use them too,” McNeil says. Later on, a friend at Thom Browne told McNeil the brand used G&G for alterations as well. Ghetto Gastro marketing director Malcolm McNeil first heard of G&G from his girlfriend, who had been a sales associate at A.P.C., which used the shop to hem and mend jeans for its recycling program. Two weeks later, she had it back - altered, as she’d specified, only ever so slightly, so it fit well but didn’t appear to have ever been touched. Afterward, she says, it fit like a glove and “not a pearl was out of place.” Dermatologist Elyse Love also used Alteration for her wedding - she brought her (slightly too big) silk dress in only three weeks before her elopement. Most challenging was her extremely delicate tulle engagement-photo dress - the sleeves needed shortening, the train needed hemming, and the whole thing had to be taken in.

She has since entrusted the shop with all of the outfits for her upcoming wedding - hers and her entire bridal party’s both. She dropped the jumpsuit off in the morning and picked it up before her holiday party - the length was perfect and the stitching pristine. She took to Google and found Alteration Specialists - several people had commented that it could handle a quick turnaround. In 2019, voice actor Lauren Kammerling needed a jumpsuit hemmed by the end of the day. (From $25.)Īlteration Specialist, multiple locations Bennett has since brought other vintage pieces to Dashnor for adjustments as well as some YSL pants she had shortened and taken in to wear to this year’s Met Gala. “People will stop me on the street and be like, ‘Where’d you get your suit? It fits you perfectly,’ ” she says. Now, it’s her favorite suit because it looks custom made. Dashnor “Dino” Begaj, master tailor and owner of the shop, was able to do the job in just six hours and charged her $300. Dashnor Tailoring on the Upper East Side, he said - a small, old-school tailoring shop on the garden floor of a townhouse.

Knowing it was a steal, she bought it anyway and asked colleague Miles Pope, the associate fashion director at GQ, where to take it for a rush job - she needed it back in three days for an event. Last year, Willa Bennett, the head of social at GQ, happened upon a $250 vintage Gucci suit at a thrift store that “needed quite a bit of work” to fit her frame.

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