About the shop
Elegance Tailoring & Alterations sits inside the St Peter’s Quarter in Derby. It is run by Elias Shahsavandi, and it has 99 Google reviews at 4.6 stars.
Every colour matched in-houseAsk for Elias
We’d rather tell you a piece can’t be saved than take your money and hand you back something you won’t wear.
Elegance Tailoring, Derby
The shop is a small team: a tailor and a seamstress working in the same room as the counter. That layout is the reason a difficult piece can be looked at, pinned and priced while you wait, and the reason the person who assesses your garment is the person who works on it.
Pinned, then recut by handWhat customers keep mentioning
Everything below is drawn from what customers have written publicly on Google. Nothing here is a claim we have made up about ourselves.
- Difficult jobs: The reviews keep returning to the same thing: pieces other shops would send away. Delicate chiffon, asymmetrical hems, beaded bodices, damaged designer outerwear.
- Speed: “Completed very quickly” and “in 1 week” appear in the reviews unprompted. A same-day service is advertised in the window.
- Being told straight: Advice about material and colours, time taken to understand what you actually want, and a price before the work starts.
- Fair pricing: “Very fairly priced” is a customer’s phrase, not ours: it is in the Google reviews, in writing.
Alterations and dry cleaning, on one counter
The main sign above the unit reads ELEGANCE TAILORING · CLOTHING ALTERATIONS · DRY CLEANING. That third word is the part people miss, and it is genuinely useful: a coat can be cleaned and re-lined in the same week, in the same place, with one drop-off and one collection.
The lit sign on St Peter’s Way
Dry cleaning on the same counter
Thread matched to the garment
Leather and biker gear
Curtains made and re-hemmed
Gowns in the fitting areaOne visit instead of two.
Clare Towle’s review describes exactly this: a damaged coat re-lined and dry cleaned, finished in one week. Most tailors send the cleaning out. Here it happens on the same counter.
- Fitting room on site: you’re measured in the shop, not at home with a tape.
- Ladies’ and gents’: plus curtains, leather, bags and boots.
- Same-day available: advertised in the window, terms apply.
- City centre: St Peter’s Quarter, a few minutes’ walk from the Derbion.
Look for the red mark between the two wordsWhat our customers say
Five of the ninety-nine Google reviews, word for word, with the reviewers’ own names.
“I had an ill-fitting chiffon dress with an asymmetrical hem and baggy sides. This was no easy job and they made it fit like a glove. Amazing! They take time to understand what you want.”
“Our Canada Goose coat was repaired so professionally that it's virtually unnoticeable, and it was very fairly priced.”
“Friendly service with helpful advice about the material and colours available. The coat was dry cleaned and altered in 1 week.”
“Quality alterations with well-matched stitching, and completed very quickly.”
“They dealt with my challenging request for tailoring on a very delicate piece of clothing with expertise, patience and understanding.”
The counter is open seven days a week
Walk in between 9:00 and 17:30 Monday to Saturday, or 11:00 and 16:00 on a Sunday, and ask for Elias.