Are the buttons on your pants and shirts about to come off? Do you have a pair of jeans that needs to be patched up? How about your new blouse or pants? Do you need it altered before first wearing it? That’s where the services of clothes alteration is a life saver.

Places where you can most likely find clothes alteration shops are in shopping malls and department stores. The majority of the time when you go shopping for clothes, you can ask where you can get your new clothes altered and there should be a place in the same building.

The types of services vary greatly, but alterations and mends are their specialties. You can usually find a menu of their list of services that outline what they can do and how much they cost. The majority of the time, if the seamstress/owner is not too busy, you can get service while you wait. Otherwise, you can always come back later to pick up your clothes. The costs of such services are extremely reasonable, usually costing no more than 20-30 RMB an article, depending on the work.