Wedding gown alterations anchor the service menu at Tailor Love, a women-owned Fifth Avenue shop specializing in dress resizing, redesign, and bustle construction for bridal and formal wear. Off-the-rack purchases from Soet and other Fifth Avenue boutiques arrive for the body-line corrections that make a retail dress read as custom on a specific frame. Specialty gowns, ball gowns, and two-piece dresses — including beaded and embellished pieces that require hand-stitching rather than machine work — move through multi-fitting schedules that typically span three or four appointments. Post-wedding gown cleaning and preservation coordinate with La Mission Cleaners so brides who want the dress boxed for long-term storage can move from final fitting to conservation without booking a separate vendor. The most complex work is full bridal redesign — taking a mother's or grandmother's gown apart at the seams and rebuilding it into a silhouette the current bride would actually choose for herself.