Sew Chic By Sohayla — Local services in Meridian

i brought my prom dress in at the beginning of march asking for a slit added to the right side, a little bit of the poof removed and to hem the dress. she told me that she would have it back to me on april 6th. i got a message on april 4th asking again what i wanted done to my dress, when i went in on the 6th my dress had been shortened like i asked, but the hem was not straight. there was no slit on the dress, and the layer of chiffon making the dress poofy was still there. on top of this, the hook and eye was broken. she had me put the dress on and informed me that “i should make sure i don’t gain anymore weight or the dress wouldn’t fit for prom” and then set my pickup date as 2 days before the dance (april 29th) my mom called her and told her we needed it earlier when i came home in tears. she said my dress would be ready on april 11th, i got a message on the 8th informing me my dress was ready, i came out that day, the poof had been cut out of my dress as i asked, and three of the four layers of the dress had a slit, the bottom layer was still uncut. the skit was not cut straight and the layers did not align. she told me she was going to cut the slit on the sean and then didn’t see if the seams of the layers lined up, which they didn’t. she took the dress to her front room and cut the bottom layer, we had to request that she surge the edges and she told us multiple times it wasn’t necessary (it was) she again asked me to come back (for the third time now) i did, i came back with my mom on the 11th. my mom requested that she sew all the layers together, she informed us this was not a possibility because she had not cut the slits aligned with each other. the slit was small and not noticeable, my mom requested that she make the slit bigger and she cut the dress while i was wearing it, these cuts were not straight, they were jagged and curved. she again asked us to come back the next day. my mom said that she would be back to pickup the dress in 2 hours. the dress was ready. the slit was still jagged and the hem still uneven. we paid 100+ dollars for my prom dress...

Very odd location… no indication that this was a business out of someone’s house… signage is completely unclear. We showed up and ended up having to call and set up an appointment which wasn’t clear at all either.

We ended up coming back a few days later for our appointment…Neighbor was really odd about us parking by their house. We go up to the house to ring the doorbell and we were told to go to the side entrance which again was extremely unclear. The place was so tiny I could barely get through the door with her just standing there telling me to come in but not moving out of the way? It was also FREEZING cold and I had to take off everything to try on the dress I was hoping to have altered even though I had already pinned where I wanted the dress. Anyway that’s fine…. I guess I appreciate all the attention to detail but was completely taken aback when she wanted to charge $80 for a SIMPLE hem on a $50 polyester dress…… not to mention she wanted me to come back in a few days to re-try on the dress before she finished. Overall, it just seemed like a big hassle and not what I was looking for at all.

I guess this place would be worth it for someone looking for high end, couture, or handmade clothing?? I’m not sure but it was a complete headache for me.

I do not recommend for anyone looking for simple, stress...

I highly recommend Sohayla for any of your alterations needs! I’m getting married next week and she has been nothing but helpful to me. I wanted to order a wedding dress online and I called her to see if she could measure me first. She said sure, come on over right now. She did it free of charge! I picked out the dress and went to Sohayla to do my alterations, come to find out that the dress just was not going to work for my body type. I ordered 2 more right away to see which would work best. She has given me her honest opinion the whole time. Which I love! I want the dress to be perfect on my special day. I have gone numerous times to make sure everything is fitting correctly and that I am happy! She definitely knows what she is doing! I’m very happy with my dress! I can’t wait for my soon to be husband see me walking down the aisle! Thank you Sohayla for all that you have done to help me! You have gone above and beyond! If I ever need any alterations done again, I will for sure be going back!! I’ll post pics after my wedding day 😊 EDIT… I had nothing but compliments at our wedding on my dress and our pictures turned out incredible. Everyone who sees the pics immediately compliments the dress! Thank you again Sohayla for your...