With a clothing alterations service, you can definitely start earning extra money, and within days of starting up. In fact, I personally know someone who has made a fortune over the years with her own clothing alteration service and this from the comfort of her own home. Her home buzzes with customers coming and going.

How can you go about offering your own clothing alterations service to those who are already looking for this service?

Clothing Alterations – Advertising

Put an advert in your local newspaper or magazine offering your alteration service to get started. You will be surprised to find out how quickly your skills will become required. In some towns, alterations shops have opened up for people to drop in with their items and collect later. Now, in my book, that means there is a need for such a service.

Two other ways to get started would be to have some leaflets printed and leave them in dress shops, dry cleaners and dress-hire shops or to approach a ladies clothing store and see if they need someone to alter a dress, for example, for their customers. Often clothes stores are looking for someone who can offer dressmaking help.

Once you start acquiring customers, with this business you will always find more customers entirely from word of mouth and it’s unlikely that you will have many periods of time when you don’t have enough work to pay your bills.

clothing Alterations – Organising Your Business

On the other hand, you have to ensure that you have the space to hang the clothes as they are waiting for attention or for the customers collection.  Other items you will need are the usual sewing machine and tools but also remember to have a reliable mobile and notebooks for recording all the work you will have.

Clothing Alterations – Extras

For the extra sewing skills which you may need, there are many books on the market to help you get started, including books you can download and also videos. An alternative could well be to enrol with a sewing course but from my own experience of going down this route, it was not satisfactory as the tutor would only have a certain amount of time for each student and invariably, never got to me!

Sewing Tips

How to start a fashion business, has a free report, which covers many aspects of the clothing business and may just be what you need to inspire you to follow this method of earning money with a clothing alteration service.