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JeffFromTheDailyMail · 22/05/2016 21:00

I have a dress I love but since dropping from a 12 to an eight shameless stealth boast it no longer fits at all. It wasn't hugely expensive - damsel in a dress, and a couple of years old, but I wish I could wear it. Does anyone have any idea of how much the going rate is to make alterations like this? Tia

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JeffFromTheDailyMail · 22/05/2016 21:16

Anybody?

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Cakescakescakes · 22/05/2016 21:17

I paid £18 to have shoulders layered on a dress and a back seam taken in a bit. That was couple of years ago though. Yours might be bit more substantial work.

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WhiteHairReally · 22/05/2016 21:32

It depends on the construction of the dress and I suspect where you live too.
I had a sleeveless dress taken in by just having the back seam taken in recently. It cost £20. I also had a favourite jacket taken in, a major job which cost £55.

These were both done by a fairly chichi tailoress in a smarting suburb of a naive city.

I also have skirts being taken in ( involving taking out a zip and negotiating linings.) at a alterations place in a much more 'normal' part of town. I'll be paying £10 per skirt.

Hope these examples help you OP.

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mrsvilliers · 22/05/2016 21:33

I think it will depend on the stitching. I am having alterations to an evening gown (lining up, chiffon outer up and hemmed, shoulder taken in), total cost just over £20 for 1.5 hours work. But a top that I want to be taken down a size is going to take the same amount of time again and then some as the stitching is tricky. So I think your best bet would be to take to a seamstress and see what they say. Perhaps have an amount in your head as the max you'd go to? And congrats on the weight loss, very well done!!

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ProseccoPoppy · 22/05/2016 21:41

I had a ball gown taken in between two and four inches everywhere. That's a LOT of work undoing seams and adjusting lining and boning etc and was iirc about £80. Totally worth it though - my max would have been £100, if I'd been quoted much more I'd have looked for a new dress. Yours will depend on the fabric and whether it's lined etc and whether it is a full seam unstitch job or a nip and tuck.

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JeffFromTheDailyMail · 22/05/2016 22:05

Thank you all, I would probably pay £50 which from the sounds of it isn't totally impossible but I'll take the advice and go and make some call tomo row