Custom Suits in Etobicoke.
West-end tailoring, on your schedule.
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From The Kingsway to Mimico, the west end is forty minutes from the studio, so the first appointment comes to you: Sam measures you at your office, and you make the drive once, for the fitting.
The west end is far enough from most tailoring that the drive alone talks people out of a proper suit. So for Etobicoke, from The Kingsway to Mimico and Humber Bay, the answer is fewer trips rather than a shorter drive. Sam comes to your office for the first appointment, the measuring, a selection of cloth and the conversation, whether you work in Etobicoke, at Sherway or downtown; the one drive up the 400 is for the fitting on the finished garment, and after that your pattern is on file, so the next order is a phone call.
Etobicoke weddings run all season: grooms and groomsmen getting married at the west-end golf clubs and the waterfront halls, measured together with both fathers so the party stands in the photographs like it was planned, because it was. Custom suits and tuxedos, made to fit and yours to keep.
The same hand does the working wardrobe too: the first serious navy suit, the daily charcoal, the sport coat and trousers for the weekend. Drafted to your body, fitted in person, and yours for years of events after.
For Etobicoke clients, Sam makes custom suits, wedding suits & tuxedos, business suits, custom shirts and traditional menswear, all measured personally.
What Sam does here
Neighbourhoods Sam serves
Also nearby
- The studio
- 318 Charlton Avenue · Vaughan, Ontario
- From The Kingsway
- About 27 km, about forty minutes Up Royal York and the 400, outside rush hour. Highway 401 east to the 400 north, then the 407 east to the Dufferin exit; without the toll, leave the 400 at Steeles and go east to New Westminster Drive. Parking at the door. Directions from The Kingsway →
- Or at your office
- Sam comes to your office for the first appointment; the fitting is at the studio. Book an office visit →
- Telephone
- 647 · 458 · 0711
From the lake to Steeles.
Etobicoke runs from Lake Ontario to Steeles between the Humber and Etobicoke Creek. It was a township, then a borough formed with Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch in 1967, then a city, and part of Toronto since 1998. In practice it is three places: the Lakeshore's condos and old lakeside towns, the leafy Kingsway and Islington in the middle, and the north end towards the airport.
The census bears that out. Along the Lakeshore more than a third of households are one person, and it grew by almost ten per cent in five years; in Etobicoke North, South Asian and Black residents together make up more than half the population; Italian is the heritage most often reported across Etobicoke as a whole. One commuter in five takes transit, and for anyone who works downtown, Sam comes to the office for the first appointment, so the drive to Vaughan is made once, for the fitting.
- Population, 2021
- about 376,000
- Commute by transit
- 20.1%
- One-person homes, Lakeshore
- 37.4%
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: Etobicoke Centre, Etobicoke North and Etobicoke—Lakeshore ridings · City of Toronto: Montgomery's Inn · Etobicoke
Around Etobicoke
- Montgomery's Inn An 1830s Georgian inn at Dundas & Islington, now a free city museum.
- Humber Bay Park and the Arch Bridge The lakefront at the mouth of Mimico Creek, and the walking bridge over the Humber.
- Colonel Samuel Smith Park A lakefront park with trails, opened in 1996.
- Centennial Park Opened by the borough in 1967; BMX at the 2015 Pan Am Games.
- The Kingsway Between Bloor and Dundas, and Taste of the Kingsway on Bloor every September.
Questions from Etobicoke clients
Do I have to come up to Vaughan from Etobicoke?
Once, for the fitting. For the first appointment Sam comes to your office instead: book it online or by phone and he will confirm the time and the address. The fitting happens at the Vaughan studio, where the fabric books and your pattern live. It is roughly forty minutes up from The Kingsway, and it is normally two visits rather than three. If travel is genuinely hard, now and then Sam makes a first visit to a home instead, and he decides case by case, so ask when you call; the fitting on the finished garment is at the studio.
Can Sam dress an Etobicoke wedding party?
Yes. Groom, groomsmen and both fathers, measured together and coordinated. Custom wedding suits and tuxedos for west-end weddings, measured and fitted at the studio in Vaughan.
How far is the studio from Etobicoke?
About twenty-seven kilometres from The Kingsway to 318 Charlton Avenue, up Royal York and the 400: roughly forty minutes outside rush hour. Parking is at the door.
Do you do alterations in the west end?
Yes. Expert alterations on suits, jackets and trousers, whether Sam made them or not.
Measured personally.
At the Vaughan studio, or at your office for the first appointment. Start with a conversation.