A fitting room, not a factory floor
The shop is one fitting room, one cutting table, and two sewing machines, run by a tailor who trained doing alterations for a downtown department store before its tailoring counter closed. Nothing here is made from scratch - every garment that comes through the door already belongs to someone.
Most weeks are hems and waistbands. Wedding season is suits and gowns, six to ten a week, each with its own fitting and its own chalk marks - nothing is altered from a photo or a phone measurement.
Every alteration is pinned on the body first, marked in chalk, and only then unpicked and re-sewn. That order does not change for a rush job.
