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Do you need tailoring & alteration support for your project, event or any other occasion, please do get in touch with us to discuss!
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Design & Alter does all my alterations. They provide a good customer service and very high quality tailoring service. Thank you!
C.B.
Managed to get a long loved dress copied. I thought I would never be able to wear it again. Really happy with both the service and the dress.
J.C.
Design & Alter, High Quality Alteration and Tailoring Services – draft AK
Being established for over 25 years we are one of London’s leading tailoring and alteration services. Stylists and leading fashion houses trust us with their clients’ designer alterations. Our team of 20 experienced and highly skilled tailors, seamstresses, consultants and designers is based in Battersea. We ensure that your wardrobe will be fitted perfectly and carry out:
- Clothes alterations, clothing alterations – ladies alterations, womenswear alterations, menswear alterations
- Specialist alterations – expert alterations, fur alterations, leather alterations, complex fabric alterations
- Designer alterations – maintaining the original finish, style and proportions
- Made-to-measure – bespoke tailoring – copying of existing garments
- Restyling and restoring of garments
- Jeans Denim Alterations
- Leather Alterations
- Dress Alterations
- Suit and Jacket Alterations
- Coat Alterations
- Fitting consultations
- Professional measurement service
Dress, Skirt and Evening Dress Alterations
Our fitters and tailors have extensive knowledge in dress making, construction and evening dress alterations picking up on the tradition of individual seamstresses. They will provide you with valuable insight and advice of how to wear your dress best, of how to enhance the fit by applying your individual body measurements always aware of maintaining the original finish. Complex dress alterations – couture and high end fashion are our speciality. Our sister company Bride & Alter is looking after bridal alterations, wedding dress alterations and bespoke bridal tailoring. www.brideandalter.com
Altering Clothes, Clothing Alterations, Garment Alterations
Our experienced, skilled and highly-qualified tailors and seamstresses will ensure that your clothes alterations, ladies’ garments or menswear, will be looked after and amended in the most professional manner. We will shape the garment and achieve the perfect fit for your body type. Whether it is the shortening of a hem, taking in a waist or providing additional room in the garment, this is the craft we specialise in. Clothing alterations are quite different to tailoring and the skill of the alteration lies in the expert fitting, attention to detail and the perfection of the execution. We work on the basis of maintaining the original finish, style and proportions of a garment – particularly important with designer clothes ensuring the integrity of an item.
Coat Alterations, Suit, Jacket and Trouser Alterations, Shirt Alterations
D&A is well known for its experience and excellence in all formal clothes and dress alterations to the extent that the alteration will not be noticeable. One of the most common alterations is the professional shortening of the arm and leg length. To preserve proportions and the integrity of the design, this often requires the alteration of other dimensions and finishes, moving buttons, buckles or even a change of length in the sleeve cap of a garment. We regularly alter waistlines, collars, cuffs, pockets, in-seam pockets, shoulders and re-new jacket and coat linings, shortening and tapering of trousers is standard.
Jeans Shortening and Alterations
With such a variety of different styles and brands available, the ultimate jeans alterations should follow the brand’s requirements and not be noticeable in thread colour, in stitching and finish. We offer a high quality alteration service doing exactly that – keeping the integrity of the original. If you are in doubt of the finish you are looking for, Design & Alter has a range of sample jeans finishes to choose from. This will help to make your favourite jeans look like they have been made for you. We offer distressed and antique finishes. More …
Vintage Re-Styling, Restoring, Preserving
If you are the person who enjoys vintage clothes, we can help you to finish off your look. We would take great pleasure in supporting you and some members of our staff are vintage fans themselves. We alter vintage and family heirloom garments, restore and preserve inherited wedding dresses.
If you are the type of person who loves to wear garments for a very long time and feels one of your old favourites like a trench coat or an inherited suit would benefit from an update or some restyling, please do get in touch! It often does not take much to revamp an item and extent the life span of an old favourite. Small alterations like lifting a waistline, re-adjusting of shoulders or simply shortening a hemline can make a huge difference. Before you kick out a much-loved or expensive designer items, please do get in touch to explore your options. Should there be no hope and your favourite garment is falling to pieces, our made to measure department might be able to replicate it for you!
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Visit Our Sister Company
🪡 Many alteration are still done by hand, creating the perfect finish on designer garments. Watching Aref, our suit and jacket tailor altering a @loropiana cashmere garment.
🖋️ Book your appointment vial email.
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TOO SMALL?
📌 We can add some extra width to your garment. Adding panels can be done discreetly, or, occasionally we make them a design feature. However, finding a matching fabric can be challenging.
For this beautiful @zimmermann dress, we used fabric from the inside pockets. It was just about enough. We remade the pockets in lilac cotton. The dress looks amazing and can now be worn again! 💜
🖋️ To enquire, email receptions@designandalter.com
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HOME FITTINGS 🪡
We fit your garments in your home to make perfect clothes easy for you!
⏰ Receive a 15% discount on home fittings and alterations as a D&A client. Book your appointment via email - reception@designandalter.com
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TO ALL VINTAGE LOVERS ❤️🔥
We alter, restyle and repair vintage garments and keep the original finish, style and proportions.
Book your appointment via email receptions@designandalter.com
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⏰ There is no excuse for ill-fitted clothes. For convenience and comfort, we fit your clothes in your home environment and offer a 15% discount on total charges.
📌 To book your appointment, email reception@designandalter.com
📸 labels and snapshots in our workroom.
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TROUSER ALTERATIONS 🪡
Buy your trousers slightly bigger than too small. In most cases, it is easier and more cost-effective to take in than letting out. How much can be let out a seam depends on the seam allowance which is often not very much. We regularly add panels but sourcing a matching fabric is always challenging.
📸 @reiss trouser fitting, before the alterations. We let out almost 2cm, and the trousers fitted much better when the client collected them.
⏰ Are you a D&A client? Book your fitting appointment until 28/02 and receive a 20% discount.
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BRIDAL AND WEDDING DRESS ALTERATIONS by sister company @brideandalter 🪡❤️
📌 Enquire via email. Info@brideandalter.com
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💡 THE BEST FIT
It means we align your dress to your body measurements resulting in the best look and feel to skyrocket your confidence!
📸 @dolcegabbana dress pinned in prep of the alteration. Once done, the dress will look incredible on our client, beautifully contouring her body shape.
📌 20% discount on alterations for @_designandalter @brideandalter clients - book your appointment! 🔼
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