Business suits for Bay Street.
For Bay Street: Sam comes to your office.
★ 4.8 · 160 Google reviews · First appointment free, at the studio or your office
For the Bay Street crowd who can't lose half a day to a showroom, Sam comes to the office for the first appointment. The studio keeps the fabric books, the shears and every client pattern in one place, which is why the fitting happens there, once.
In the Financial District you are surrounded by custom shops charging you for the address. Sam charges you for the suit. Same wools, same canvassed construction, never fused, from a studio just over the city line at Steeles with parking at the door. One visit sets the pattern; everything after it is a phone call.
Sam comes to your office for the first appointment: the measuring, a selection of cloth and the conversation, between two meetings rather than instead of an afternoon. The fitting on the finished garment is at the studio, once.
The work is a partner's wardrobe: navy and charcoal that carry a room, glen check with a little more to say, and a travelling suit cut to survive a red-eye and a morning meeting. Soft enough to sit and work in, structured enough to command the table. Custom shirts to match (your collar, your cuff, your fit) so nothing gapes when the jacket comes off.
Your measurements are taken by hand and kept on a personal pattern, so your next suit or shirt is already halfway made. Reorder by phone and it arrives cut to you. One tailor, one client, no sales floor.
For the Financial District 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 Union Station
- About 22 km, about forty minutes Up University, Avenue Road and the Allen, outside rush hour. The Allen becomes Dufferin north of the 401; follow it to Brownridge Drive and east to Charlton Avenue. By transit, Line 1 to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre and Viva Orange to the Promenade, or Line 1 to Wilson and the 160 Bathurst North. Parking at the door. Directions from Union Station →
- 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
The heart of Canada's finance.
The Financial District runs roughly from Queen to Front between University and Yonge, and it is the heart of Canada's finance industry. Downtown Toronto held 664,650 jobs in 2025, two in three of them in offices, and finance and insurance added more new jobs across the city that year than any other industry. Beneath it the PATH links more than 75 buildings and Union Station through thirty kilometres of walkways, so the core can be crossed underground in January.
The few who live here live high: nearly every home in the Yonge-Bay Corridor is in a tower, five households in six are condos, and one resident in seven works in finance, almost twice the city's rate. In September TIFF closes King Street West along the district's edge for its red carpets. For all of it, Sam comes to your office for the first appointment, and the fitting is the one trip north.
- Downtown jobs, 2025
- 664,650
- Of them in offices
- 67%
- The PATH
- 30+ km
Sources: City of Toronto: the PATH · City of Toronto: Employment Survey 2025 · City of Toronto: neighbourhood profiles (Yonge-Bay Corridor)
Around the Financial District
- The PATH More than 30 km of walkways under the core, linking 75 buildings and Union Station.
- TD Centre Mies van der Rohe's towers at King & Bay, from 1967; its underground concourse was the PATH's first stretch.
- Commerce Court North The 1931 limestone tower that was the tallest in the British Empire until 1962.
- Brookfield Place Santiago Calatrava's Allen Lambert Galleria.
- Union Station Opened in 1927; a National Historic Site and Canada's busiest transit hub.
Questions from the Financial District clients
Is there a downtown showroom?
No, and that is deliberate. There is one studio, in Vaughan, and everything is fitted there. It is a straight run up the Allen or the 400, and most Bay Street clients come once for measuring and once to collect. For the first appointment, Sam can come to your office instead: the measuring, a selection of cloth and the conversation, without leaving the building. The fitting on the finished garment still happens at the studio.
How long does a custom business suit take?
About three to four weeks from the first appointment. Once your pattern is on file, reordering is a phone call rather than another appointment.
Do you make custom shirts for the office too?
Yes. Custom dress shirts cut from the pattern of your own shoulders, in two-ply cotton, with your collar, cuff and monogram. They stop the gape and bunching an off-the-rack shirt gives under a jacket.
Can I reorder without coming in again?
Yes. Your measurements are kept on file, so a second navy suit or a run of shirts can be ordered by phone and cut to you.
Measured personally.
At the Vaughan studio, or at your office for the first appointment. Start with a conversation.