Best of Boston

Best Tailor

2012 Best Tailor

Newbury Tailoring Company

Boston
When the tower of too-big thrift-store finds and too-long jeans in our closet threatens to topple, we head straight to Flavio Antonio Rivas and his [...] read more»
2011 Best Tailor

Robin Chalfin, Toolkit

Given that Mick Jagger, Michelle Williams, and Salma Hayek have all put themselves in her hands (literally), Robin Chalfin can certainly lay claim to being [...] read more»
2009 Best Tailor

Newbury Tailoring Company

Boston
Antonio Rivas and his merry band of seamsters have earned a cult following for their skill in reattaching the original hem to jeans. But come [...] read more»
2008 Best Tailor

Le Couturier House of Alterations

Cambridge
Favored by some of the city's most discriminating boutique owners and clotheshorses, Dick Robasson is a stitch wizard straight out of another era. Holed up [...] read more»
2008 Best Tailor

Le Couturier House of Alterations

Cambridge
Favored by some of the city's most discriminating boutique owners and clotheshorses, Dick Robasson is a stitch wizard straight out of another era. Holed up [...] read more»
2007 Best Tailor

Newbury Tailoring Company

Boston
They're not cheap, but the Rivas brothers can always be trusted to shorten a pair of jeans (miraculously keeping the original hem), nip in a [...] read more»
2006 Best Tailor

Newbury Tailoring Company

Boston
When the Rivas brothers relocated down the street to 91 Newbury, their patrons followed. Their tailoring team can take in or let out (not that [...] read more»
2005 Best Tailor

Raymond Personal Tailor

Boston
We've all suffered shorn seams and uneven handiwork by tailors. Thankfully this sophisticated shop, run by owner Raymond Buckley, can handle everything from heavy three-piece [...] read more»
2004 Best Tailor

Jordan the Tailor

Boston
You can shop off the rack, but that doesn't necessarily mean your clothes will fit off the rack. Jordan Tsavalakoglou can remedy that situation. Tsavalakoglou [...] read more»
2003 Best Tailor

Best Fit

Boston
This year, we decided two-time winner Lyudmila Sletkova and her team at Best Fit should be put to the test before capturing the prize once [...] read more»