Dress maker/seamstress

Hola any suggestion for a dress maker/ seamstress, I am having a tough time finding one!
thank you

Good luck with that. We had simple alterations done multiple times over 2 years living there and none were right. No one was even able to copy a simple dress or to alter one they were selling. Amazing.

There is even a guy across the street from immigration who appears to be a pattern maker. He couldn't alter the waist in a pair of shorts. 2" requested was 4"taken in. No one is that stupid. Measurements and work was requested in Spanish and instructions were written.

Unless you are making a moo moo give it up.

I'm sure someone on this board gets couture work done. We didn't find it.

Hola any suggestion for a dress maker/ seamstress, I am having a tough time finding one!
thank you

There are a couple of sastrerías on Catalina González street between 5 de Mayo and Cuauhtémoc streets in downtown Zihuatanejo. My wife uses the one near the corner owned by a very corpulent woman. If you get lost or confused just ask at the tienda for the "mujer sastre". I don't recall her name.

Good luck with that. We had simple alterations done multiple times over 2 years living there and none were right. No one was even able to copy a simple dress or to alter one they were selling. Amazing.

There is even a guy across the street from immigration who appears to be a pattern maker. He couldn't alter the waist in a pair of shorts. 2" requested was 4"taken in. No one is that stupid. Measurements and work was requested in Spanish and instructions were written.

Unless you are making a moo moo give it up.

I'm sure someone on this board gets couture work done. We didn't find it.

I have a hard time believing this story because there are so many talented sastres around. If the measurements were in inches instead of centimeters that may have been the problem, never mind what language you wrote the instructions in. My wife frequently had work done without any problems when her boutique was open (currently closed for the pandemia).

You're implying I made this up? That's ridiculous and insulting. NmCentimeters vs inches? That's ridiculous. We know the difference and gave measurements in both. I thought the purpose of this board was to share real lexperiences to benefit others. I repeat stay away from the sewing shop across the street from INM.

You're implying I made this up? That's ridiculous and insulting. NmCentimeters vs inches? That's ridiculous. We know the difference and gave measurements in both. I thought the purpose of this board was to share real lexperiences to benefit others. I repeat stay away from the sewing shop across the street from INM.

I never said you made this up, but again, your reaction is as odd as the story. I never said you didn't know the difference between centimeters and inches. But why give instruction in inches at all? We don't use inches here. Sounds confusing. Like I said, it appears you confused rather than clarified.

Paz y amor.

You're implying I made this up? That's ridiculous and insulting. NmCentimeters vs inches? That's ridiculous. We know the difference and gave measurements in both. I thought the purpose of this board was to share real lexperiences to benefit others. I repeat stay away from the sewing shop across the street from INM.

I never said you made this up, but again, your reaction is as odd as the story. I never said you didn't know the difference between centimeters and inches. But why give instruction in inches at all? We don't use inches here. Sounds confusing. Like I said, it appears you confused rather than clarified.

Paz y amor.

Whatever you say. Hasta La Vista!

You're implying I made this up? That's ridiculous and insulting. NmCentimeters vs inches? That's ridiculous. We know the difference and gave measurements in both. I thought the purpose of this board was to share real lexperiences to benefit others. I repeat stay away from the sewing shop across the street from INM.

I never said you made this up, but again, your reaction is as odd as the story. I never said you didn't know the difference between centimeters and inches. But why give instruction in inches at all? We don't use inches here. Sounds confusing. Like I said, it appears you confused rather than clarified.

Paz y amor.

Whatever you say. Hasta La Vista!

Allow me to continue. People don't open up businesses here that they are terrible at, though I may be the exception. If the sign on the shop didn't say "sastre", then perhaps you went to the wrong kind of business. I may pass by there tomorrow after I get vaccinated. I don't like to hear hard working people bashed and called "stupid", especially by foreigners, or to have anyone warn people away from a business without me looking into it personally. That's the difference between posting here and on any other forum where anyone can say anything damaging about anybody or any business and, if you don't get deleted for being "negative", nobody bothers to check the claims. It isn't a personal attack on you, though you appear to have taken it as such.

Hola any suggestion for a dress maker/ seamstress, I am having a tough time finding one!
thank you

There are a couple of sastrerías on Catalina González street between 5 de Mayo and Cuauhtémoc streets in downtown Zihuatanejo. My wife uses the one near the corner owned by a very corpulent woman. If you get lost or confused just ask at the tienda for the "mujer sastre". I don't recall her name.

Years ago, one of those shops did a terrific job on a t-shirt I'd recently purchased across the street from Rick's Bar. The word "Zihua" was stitched across the entire front of the shirt, and the stitching started to unravel after the first washing. The lady completed the intricate re-stitching the same day, and charged an unbelievable 40 pesos! We've also had purses, shoes and fanny packs repaired at shops in the same area: excellent work at embarrassingly low prices.
As an aside, I keep asking local t-shirt vendors why they don't sell t-shirts with the word "Zihua".....or at least "Zihuatanejo".... instead of nothing but the ubiquitous "Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo."

I don't know if this has changed, but we found a shop on Ejido called Inbursa which sells (sold?) high quality T shirts and a good selection with only Zihuatanejo printed on them.

The store is located on the north side of Ejido just before you get to Los Braseros from Benito Juarez.

They also have a satellite location in the Mercado but trying to describe where to find it is a challenge

Hope they're still in business because it is our "go to location" for T shirts.

Roberto!

I don't know if this has changed, but we found a shop on Ejido called Inbursa which sells (sold?) high quality T shirts and a good selection with only Zihuatanejo printed on them.

The store is located on the north side of Ejido just before you get to Los Braseros from Benito Juarez.

They also have a satellite location in the Mercado but trying to describe where to find it is a challenge

Hope they're still in business because it is our "go to location" for T shirts.

Roberto!

That sounds like the shop that makes t-shirts on the spot, with hundreds of different choices of appliques, but I never saw just "Zihua".
(I've often thought, just to irritate Zihua regulars, I'll get one that says "Zihuat"
I'd also like to get one with big reproductions, front and back, of that Eagle-head "Hecho en Mexico" logo. I bought one off-the-shelf in Zihua a few years ago, but the only one I could find unfortunately said "Hecho en Mexico, Pero Bien Hecho", which someone, sadly, apparently thought was funny.

Hola any suggestion for a dress maker/ seamstress, I am having a tough time finding one!
thank you

01 May 2021
@Reneeandnicolo

In the market called "SOLIDARIDAD" (may also be known as the "maze", as it can be quite confusing to find your way around inside) there are several that I have used, and do adequate repairs.
They're always overloaded with work, so they must be doing something right?

El Mercado Solidaridad is sandwiched between la calle Cocos (near Merza Pak) y la calle Mangos (?).

You can contact Ulises Solano Quiroz, (755)5593023. His wife is a seamstress. He speaks good English but his wife does not.

You're implying I made this up? That's ridiculous and insulting. NmCentimeters vs inches? That's ridiculous. We know the difference and gave measurements in both. I thought the purpose of this board was to share real lexperiences to benefit others. I repeat stay away from the sewing shop across the street from INM.

I never said you made this up, but again, your reaction is as odd as the story. I never said you didn't know the difference between centimeters and inches. But why give instruction in inches at all? We don't use inches here. Sounds confusing. Like I said, it appears you confused rather than clarified.

Paz y amor.

Whatever you say. Hasta La Vista!

Allow me to continue. People don't open up businesses here that they are terrible at, though I may be the exception. If the sign on the shop didn't say "sastre", then perhaps you went to the wrong kind of business. I may pass by there tomorrow after I get vaccinated. I don't like to hear hard working people bashed and called "stupid", especially by foreigners, or to have anyone warn people away from a business without me looking into it personally. That's the difference between posting here and on any other forum where anyone can say anything damaging about anybody or any business and, if you don't get deleted for being "negative", nobody bothers to check the claims. It isn't a personal attack on you, though you appear to have taken it as such.

The elderly gentleman you called stupid passed away last month. His wife and children are now running the business. It’s a popular business with locals. I can’t imagine why a foreigner had such a different experience than everyone else.