Alterations & Tailoring

Alterations at Baroni Cleaners are priced by garment and complexity rather than off a single price list, since a simple hem and a full suit resizing take very different amounts of work. Hemming, our most requested alteration, starts at $12 and typically runs up to $20 depending on fabric and finish. Waist adjustments range from $15 to $30, sleeve shortening runs $15 to $25 on a dress shirt and $30 to $50 on a suit jacket, and taking in or letting out a jacket or dress runs $25 to $60 depending on how much restructuring the piece needs. Zipper replacement runs $20 to $40. Our in-house tailor inspects the garment and gives you a firm price before any cutting or stitching begins, so there are no surprises when it comes back.

Simple alterations like hemming, waist adjustments, and sleeve shortening typically take 2 to 3 days from pickup to delivery. More involved work, including suit alterations, dress resizing, or jobs affecting multiple garments, takes 3 to 5 days since our tailor needs more time for precise fitting and finishing. Same-day rush service is available for urgent needs, such as a suit that needs hemming before a next-day event, but it depends on current workload, so call us directly to confirm capacity before booking. Because our tailoring team works in the same facility as our dry cleaning department, alterations don't wait in a queue behind a separate outside shop, which is part of why most jobs stay within that 2 to 5 day window rather than stretching longer.

Yes, and it's one of the biggest differences between Baroni Cleaners and a typical Irvine tailor shop. Most storefront tailors require an in-person fitting appointment, then a separate return trip to pick up the finished garment, both during limited business hours. Baroni Cleaners removes that friction: our driver picks up your garment from your door, our in-house tailor and seamstress complete the work at our facility, and the same driver network delivers it back to you, free of charge, across Irvine, Newport Beach, Tustin, Santa Ana, and Costa Mesa. You never have to plan your day around a shop's open hours or take time off to make two separate trips for a single alteration.

Baroni Cleaners handles hemming, waist adjustments, sleeve shortening, taking in or letting out a jacket or dress, zipper replacement, and structural seam repair on nearly any garment type. What our tailors can't always fix is fabric that has already worn through in a wide area, since there's nothing left to reinforce, or a seam being let out beyond the fabric originally allowed for in the cut, which limits how much a garment can be resized. Our tailor will tell you honestly during inspection if a garment can't be altered the way you're hoping, rather than promise a result that won't hold up. In those cases, we'll explain what is realistic instead, so you're not paying for work that won't last.

Yes. Baroni Cleaners' alterations team hems, takes in seams, adjusts waistbands, and replaces zippers entirely in-house, working alongside our dry cleaning department rather than as an outside referral to a separate shop. Every alteration passes through the same tailoring staff, so fit and stitch quality stay consistent whether it's a $12 hem on a pair of jeans or a full suit resizing before a wedding. Keeping the work in-house also means your garment never leaves our facility between cleaning and alteration steps, which shortens turnaround and reduces the chance of a piece getting lost or delayed in handoff between two separate businesses, the way it might at a shop that outsources its tailoring.

Yes, and we recommend it whenever a garment needs both. A suit that needs cleaning and sleeve shortening, or a dress that needs cleaning and a hem before an event, can go through both departments in a single order instead of two separate trips. We always clean first and alter second, since fabric can shift slightly during cleaning, so the finished garment comes back both fresh and properly fitted rather than altered to a size that changes after washing. Combining the two also means one pickup and one delivery instead of two, saving a full round trip compared to using a separate cleaner and tailor.