There’s No Need to Hole Up When Sweaters or Knits Need Repairs

Women, have you noticed a tiny hole in the bodice of your sexy knit dress? Men, how about your favorite sweater?

Don’t toss them away.

There are people who specialize in full-scale knit repairs.

To protect your clothes, look for:

* Top-of-the-line machinery that will ensure that the fabric will not be damaged.

* Thorough explanations before work begins regarding the flaws and complexities of your garment and how the repair work might affect it.

* Satisfaction: If not completely satisfied, work should be redone at no extra cost.

Here are two repair shops that work on knits and that follow these guidelines:

Vogue Tailoring

Owner Mickie Bakho will reweave sweater holes ($10-$12), re-bead a dress hem to look precisely as it did when it was purchased ($75), stretch or taper a skirt ($35) and reconstruct the waist or seat on heavy denim jeans ($12). She also will repair moth holes on wool suits.

312761 Niguel Road, Suite C1, Laguna Niguel, (714) 489-9444.

The Knitwear Doctor

Boris and Galia Gukaylo have built a business on knitwear, serving individual customers as well as Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and St. John. Crafts people will reknit holes (starting at $12) and perform invisible French weaving on fabric (starting at $12). Each hole is hand-repaired thread by thread under a magnifying glass.

The shop also will shorten knit skirts by unraveling and refinishing the hem ($30-$45), stretch or re-size knit garments, repair knit or crocheted bedspreads and custom knit a garment.

1651 Placentia Ave., Suite D, Costa Mesa, (714) 650-1025.