Good tailor or seamstress to alter shirts

[telstrareg]

I need some of my shirts altered. Can anyone recommend one? There seem to be loads of men's suit shops around the night market but I would prefer not to pick one at random and have my best shirts ruined.

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[TheGoktor]

Apparently there's a very good sempstress at Santitham. I haven't tried her myself but a friend had an entire wardrobe made by her, and was very pleased with the results. Maybe someone else here knows who I mean?

[TheFox]

Had some suit pants enlarged at city silk on thapae road with good results.

[gentlebreeze]

DIET???

[rubberduck]

Go to the 3rd floor of Kadluang market building (in the corner above the foodcourt) the sewing ladies there do a very good job and cost near to nothing. They make shirts for me for years.

Forget the 'tailors' around nightbazar, they are crooks and use the same sewingfactory, the communication between you, those 'tailors' and the actual people who make it always causing trouble, many have bad experiences with those Pakistani. And they can't think out of the box.

[TheGoktor]

Go to the 3rd floor of Kadluang market building (in the corner above the foodcourt) the sewing ladies there do a very good job and cost near to nothing. They make shirts for me for years.

Forget the 'tailors' around nightbazar, they are crooks and use the same sewingfactory, the communication between you, those 'tailors' and the actual people who make it always causing trouble, many have bad experiences with those Pakistani. And they can't think out of the box.

Kad Luang is Wararot - where's the market building? Do you mean Kad Suan Kaew?

[stament]

Apparently there's a very good sempstress at Santitham. I haven't tried her myself but a friend had an entire wardrobe made by her, and was very pleased with the results. Maybe someone else here knows who I mean?

Sounds good, are you able to ask your friend for some contact details?

Many thanks

[OldChinaHam]

Go to the 3rd floor of Kadluang market building (in the corner above the foodcourt) the sewing ladies there do a very good job and cost near to nothing. They make shirts for me for years.

Forget the 'tailors' around nightbazar, they are crooks and use the same sewingfactory, the communication between you, those 'tailors' and the actual people who make it always causing trouble, many have bad experiences with those Pakistani. And they can't think out of the box.

Good to know!

Would those gals do jeans and slacks too if I could find the pattern and preferred material?

And are there importers/sellers of quality denim and khaki material near those gals?

Tks.

[rubberduck]

Go to the 3rd floor of Kadluang market building (in the corner above the foodcourt) the sewing ladies there do a very good job and cost near to nothing. They make shirts for me for years.

Forget the 'tailors' around nightbazar, they are crooks and use the same sewingfactory, the communication between you, those 'tailors' and the actual people who make it always causing trouble, many have bad experiences with those Pakistani. And they can't think out of the box.

Kad Luang is Wararot - where's the market building? Do you mean Kad Suan Kaew?

Don't you know the 4/5 storey old shoppingcenter right in the heart of Warorot ?

[TheGoktor]

Apparently there's a very good sempstress at Santitham. I haven't tried her myself but a friend had an entire wardrobe made by her, and was very pleased with the results. Maybe someone else here knows who I mean?

Sounds good, are you able to ask your friend for some contact details?

Many thanks

Sure - I'll send her an email (she's no longer living in CM). Will get back to you as soon as I hear from her. :-)

[TheGoktor]

Go to the 3rd floor of Kadluang market building (in the corner above the foodcourt) the sewing ladies there do a very good job and cost near to nothing. They make shirts for me for years.

Forget the 'tailors' around nightbazar, they are crooks and use the same sewingfactory, the communication between you, those 'tailors' and the actual people who make it always causing trouble, many have bad experiences with those Pakistani. And they can't think out of the box.

Kad Luang is Wararot - where's the market building? Do you mean Kad Suan Kaew?

Don't you know the 4/5 storey old shoppingcenter right in the heart of Warorot ?

No I don't! I only know the market... where is the shopping centre? **intrigued!**

[TheGoktor]

Don't you know the 4/5 storey old shoppingcenter right in the heart of Warorot ?

Oh, I am such an idiot - I've just realised that yes, I do know the place, and I've been there loads of times... I just didn't know it was a shopping centre! I've always thought of it as part of the market!

[stament]

Go to the 3rd floor of Kadluang market building (in the corner above the foodcourt) the sewing ladies there do a very good job and cost near to nothing. They make shirts for me for years.

Forget the 'tailors' around nightbazar, they are crooks and use the same sewingfactory, the communication between you, those 'tailors' and the actual people who make it always causing trouble, many have bad experiences with those Pakistani. And they can't think out of the box.

Do you buy the material and then just take it to them for a fitting? If so where do you get the material from?

Thanks most informative

[TheGoktor]

Go to the 3rd floor of Kadluang market building (in the corner above the foodcourt) the sewing ladies there do a very good job and cost near to nothing. They make shirts for me for years.

Forget the 'tailors' around nightbazar, they are crooks and use the same sewingfactory, the communication between you, those 'tailors' and the actual people who make it always causing trouble, many have bad experiences with those Pakistani. And they can't think out of the box.

Do you buy the material and then just take it to them for a fitting? If so where do you get the material from?

Thanks most informative

I saw this one today - I think you probably have to provide your own fabric... but there are loads of fabric shops at Kad Luang (outside the indoor market) - all very reasonably-priced too!

[TheGoktor]

Apparently there's a very good sempstress at Santitham. I haven't tried her myself but a friend had an entire wardrobe made by her, and was very pleased with the results. Maybe someone else here knows who I mean?

Sounds good, are you able to ask your friend for some contact details?

Many thanks

This is what my friend said:

"The seamstress is called A&O, and located further down the road from Pun Pun, on the left. It's just past Plern Plern, the barbershop, the other little place and there it is. Can't miss it, if you know where to look. They're really good there, but you've got to bring your own fabric."

(Pun Pun at Santitham is now called Imm Aim)

I also saw some some other tailors/sempstresses at Wararot (Kad Luang) today - again, outside the indoor market, in the side streets. No idea how good they are but they look like they were serving local people, so maybe the stuff is better quality than at tourist places, such as the walking street/night bazaar??

Good luck - I hope you manage to find someone!

[TheGoktor]

I just found the following on one of the CM Facebook groups...

"There is a seamstress at Wararot Market named Sijan. She is amazing. Over the past 11 years I have had her make many things. You can take fabric and a photo, or a piece of clothing you already have and she can re-create it. Sometimes she has gone fabric shopping with me at the market (she has great connections with some of the shops that sell cloth for Thai traditional outfits). She is on the 2nd floor of the 3-story market. Go up the old un-working escalator....walk straight ahead...turn right...walk about 10 meters straight ahead and her work area is on your left. Her phone # is 087-179-4509. She speaks some English....my Thai is so-so but we can communicate a lot with drawings and pointing!"

I think this might be the lady that Rubberduck was talking about.

Also, apparently this thread on FB might be useful (but I haven't looked at it)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/452781244809259/search/?query=curtains

[bottledwater]

No name in English but its near Tae Pae gate, probably spelled that wrong. Anyway, turning left onto the Sunday night market/walking street from the moat road, Black Canyon is on your left. take your very next right (north)once you are on walking street. its a small soi only about 15 or 20 meters, at the most, in from the moat road. Drive down this little soi about 50 meters. The soi veers to the left. If you do not veer left you will crash strait into a shop with lots of shirts and fabric laying around, because it is a tailor shop. or at least a shop filled with Thai lady's who are seamstresses. Go to this shop. They don't speak a huge amount of English but alterations are pretty self explanatory. Had 5 shirts altered, 50 baht a shirt, happy with all of them. They were all taken in because I'm skinny, not sure how they would do going the other way around. Sorry but I don't know the names of streets . . . .