Tailoring costs?

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I purchased a lovely dress extremely cheaply in the sale but it's so massive. Tailoring will cost 140 to completely tighten the dress. I'm just wondering what sort of prices people pay these days? I don't mind my local dry cleaner for small alterations but this is a tailor however I have no comparison for what's the standard cost these days.

Without a pic it is difficult to say. £140 is a lot but if the dress has loads of layers /sections/ complex construction then they might pretty much need to take it apart and completely rebuild it from scratch, which could feasibly be £140.

@Geneticsbunny it's pretty much taken in everywhere to make it more fitted so yes, a big job. I guess I'm used to simple tasks like taking trousers up for 15! Thank you!

It must be as multiple jobs, eg. take in at the shoulder, take in at the sides, etc.

It still seems a lot to me. The most I've paid was 95 for a large shirt to be taken in, but this needed a new collar fashioned from the excess side fabric and sleeves hemmed as well as general taking in all over. When I had a shirt just taken in all over, I think it was about 35-45 pounds.

There's a lot in between having trousers hemmed and essentially just making the item smaller all over.

Having said that, I've since stopped using that alterations place as subsequent to staff turnover they ruined some items of mine, so will be trying somewhere else soon - I've found one where the woman at least markets herself as a seamstress.