Tailor and alterations website design for a workroom with a price list

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

Only if you really make garments to order. In 2008 the Advertising Standards Authority looked at a tailor's ad for a bespoke suit and decided the word was unlikely to mislead, because the suits were made to each customer's measurements and specification, unlike off-the-peg suits. The tailor had argued its suits were made to order rather than an off-the-peg suit being altered. That ruling was about made-to-order suits under an older edition of the CAP Code, and it says nothing about alterations shops. Today's Code, which applies across the UK, still says ads must not mislead and that you need evidence for a claim before you make it (rules 3.1 and 3.7). A workroom that takes in, lets out and shortens clothes people have bought is on firmer ground calling that alterations, repairs and fittings. Tailor is still the word your customers type: when we looked, the shops on Google's map for tailor near me were alterations shops.

Say that it depends on the garment, and why, rather than promising a number of sizes. Customers ask whether a size 16 dress can come down to a 10, or a 42 suit to a 40, and the answer turns on how much cloth sits in the seams and how the garment is cut. Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which applies in all four UK nations, a promise on your page about the service is treated as a term if the customer took it into account when choosing you or when making a later decision about the job (s.50). A line such as 'we can take any dress down two sizes' could bind you once a customer relied on it. The same section counts a qualification given at the same time, so a note like 'it depends how much cloth is left in the seam, and we tell you at the pinning' does real work. The demo's answer on letting trousers down works the same way: often, if there is enough cloth turned inside the hem, and checked when you come in.

When to bring the gown in first, given as your own practice, and no finish date. People ask how many months before the wedding to start; that is a workroom's judgement, and no rule we read sets it. What the law does say, across the UK, is that a timing you state and the customer takes into account can become a term of the contract (Consumer Rights Act 2015 s.50), and that where no time is fixed the work must be done within a reasonable time (s.52). So write when you like to see a gown for the first time, how many fittings a gown usually takes, and that the timing is confirmed at the first pinning once you have seen the dress on. The demo gives each customer a rough idea of timing when they visit, texts when the work is done and says no collection date is promised.

Yes, if gowns really do come in at that figure and the page says how the full price is reached. The CAP Code, which applies across the UK, says from prices must not mislead by exaggerating what customers are likely to get (rule 3.22). The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 treats an invitation to purchase that leaves out the total price, or, where it cannot be worked out in advance, how it will be calculated, as leaving out material information (s.230). A wedding gown is the clearest case: lace, beading, layers and the size of the change all move the cost. Say what the from price covers, what tends to add to it and when the customer gets the full figure. The demo shows the gown as a from price, with the work planned in full when it first sees the gown on, and gives its bridesmaid and prom jobs a fixed price for a named piece of work.

The shoes they will wear, whatever goes underneath, and the garment itself. Customers ask whether to wash clothes before an alteration; say what you want, and if you ask for it washed, say why, for instance so any shrinking happens before it is pinned rather than after the hem is sewn. Heel height sets the length of a hem or a gown, and a slip, a waistcoat or shapewear changes how a dress or jacket sits. The demo's Before you come list adds things worth asking for too: any deadline, such as a wedding or a party, a photo if the customer wants a look copied, clothes that are quick to change out of, and for curtains the drop measured from the track. None of this is law; it is workshop practice, so word it as your advice.