Fit guide · concept preview
Alterations guide · design preview
If it is almost right

A tailor can close the last inch.

Modest shoppers know this better than anyone: sometimes the dress is right except for one thing. Here is what a local tailor can fix on NOOR pieces, what they cannot, and exactly what to say when you walk in.

Easy for any tailor

Taking a hem up

Any NOOR dress or skirt. [All hems are finished with at least X inches of allowance] - bracketed until confirmed per piece. The safest, cheapest alteration there is.

Easy for any tailor

Taking in a waist

Wrap styles barely need it; fitted knits should never need it. For everything between, a half to one inch at the side seams is routine work.

Ask first

Letting anything out

Seams carry only [a small allowance]. If a piece is too small, exchange it for the next size instead - the waitlist on the product page will hold your name if the size is gone.

Do not alter

Necklines and shoulders

Raising a neckline or re-cutting a shoulder rebuilds the piece. If the neckline is not right for you, this is the wrong piece - write to us and we will say so plainly.

"I would like the hem taken up to [just below the ankle / mid-calf], keeping the original finish."
The one sentence to say. "Keeping the original finish" means the hem looks factory-made, not chopped - any good tailor knows the term.

Why we say all this out loud

Most stores pretend alterations do not exist. Modest dressing has always worked with a tailor in the picture - a piece that is almost right should not go back over one inch.

But an altered piece cannot come back to us, so measure first, alter second. The measuring guide is one tap away.

Honest note: design preview. The hem-allowance figures are bracketed - they must be confirmed per garment before this ships, because a tailor cutting on bad information ruins a piece. Altered items being non-returnable must match the returns policy. Pure content - no systems, no ops.