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Looking for the best seamstress in ED or around.

Or seamster. Tho I think this will be a woman. Open mind.

The garments will be old and everyday. We're not talking couture. We're talking keeping old, worn, loved garments going. Making do, mending, appreciating.

There was a brilliant Cypriot lady at Alpine Cleaners in Grove Vale but she moved.

The mender at the drycleaners by the PO is OK, but I'm looking for frankly amazing.

This person need not work at a dry cleaners, nor indeed, outside her or his home.

Happy to pay for artistry. Don't want to be either ripped off or an exploiter. Simple as.

Send me a PM or maybe just post.

Thanks,

Lee Scoresby.

 

 

 

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Otherwise in Bellenden Road are brilliant! They’ve made me stage dresses, restructured vintage finds and are working on remodelling my late brothers huntsman tweed suit for my modern husband! Not cheap and rents have meant they are moving premises at mo.

On the matter of gender, raised early in the thread

There were a couple of male tailors in the area, first generation Carribbean, I think there was a time when many emigrated with these skills 

Go back 60 years and you may have had a suit made by a Jewish male tailer in the East End 

Not sure if it is common to have males in this field of work nowadays although I expect Saville Row is still male dominated.

 

 

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