Custom Suits in Thornhill.
Minutes from Centre Street, on the Vaughan–Thornhill line.
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Many of Sam's Thornhill clients come to him first for the traditional garments and stay for everything else: wedding parties, Shabbos suits, and the daily working wardrobe.
Thornhill clients often come to Sam first for the traditional garments (the fine dark suit for Shabbos, the bekishe, the kapota, the kittel) and stay for everything else. Sam has dressed the Thornhill community for years and understands what these garments are for, not just what they look like. That's rare, and it's why families send their sons and their fathers.
Plenty of Thornhill men work somewhere else: downtown, in North York, along Highway 7. For them the arrangement is the other way round from most tailors. Sam comes to your office for the first appointment, the measuring, a selection of cloth and the conversation, so it costs you no afternoon off; the fitting on the finished garment is at the studio, a few minutes from home, on an evening or a Sunday. On a Friday the studio closes early for Shabbos, so a busy week can start with the office visit instead.
The studio is a few minutes south of Centre Street and the Bathurst & Clark corridor, so a fitting fits into an ordinary afternoon. Bar mitzvah suits, Shabbos suits, the everyday working wardrobe. All get the same one-on-one attention, and all are made kosher-quiet: dignified, correct, never flashy.
Thornhill weddings and simchas are a large part of the work. Sam dresses the groom, the groomsmen and both fathers together, cut from the same fabric and coordinated down to the details, so nobody in the photographs looks like he was dressed at a different shop. Custom suits and tuxedos, made to fit, never a rental.
For Thornhill clients, Sam makes custom suits, wedding suits & tuxedos, business suits, custom shirts and traditional menswear, all measured personally.
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Also nearby
- The studio
- 318 Charlton Avenue · Vaughan, Ontario
- From Bathurst & Centre
- About 3 km, under ten minutes South down Bathurst; about ten minutes from Old Thornhill on Yonge. South on Bathurst, west on Clark Avenue, then south on New Westminster Drive to Charlton Avenue. Parking at the door. Directions from Bathurst & Centre →
- 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
Two cities, one village.
Thornhill was founded in 1794 and has never been one municipality: Yonge Street splits it between Vaughan and Markham, and each side keeps a heritage district around the old village on Yonge between Centre and John. The name now covers everything from Dufferin to the 404 and from Steeles to Highway 7, and the studio sits inside it, on the Vaughan side.
It is the centre of the Jewish community north of the city. In the Thornhill riding three residents in ten report the Jewish faith, one in ten grew up speaking Russian, and Korean, Iranian and Chinese families make it one of the most varied corners of York Region. More people take transit to work here than in Vaughan or Markham as a whole, and the Promenade at Bathurst & Centre is the crossroads most Thornhill clients pass on the way down.
- Jewish faith, 2021
- 30.5%
- Russian mother tongue
- 10.7%
- Founded
- 1794
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: Thornhill federal riding (it covers more of Vaughan, and less of Markham, than Thornhill itself) · Thornhill, Ontario
Around Thornhill
- Old Thornhill heritage districts Protected village centres on both sides of Yonge, one in Vaughan and one in Markham.
- Thornhill Village Library An 1851 house on Colborne Street, a library since 1960.
- Promenade Shopping Centre At Bathurst & Centre since 1986, a few minutes north of the studio.
- Thornhill Community Centre Arenas, a pool and a library at Bayview & John, on the Markham side.
Questions from Thornhill clients
Does Sam make traditional and Jewish garments in Thornhill?
Yes. The fine dark suit, the bekishe, the kapota and kittel, and simcha garments, all cut to the tradition and to you. Sam has dressed the Thornhill community for years and knows what each garment is for.
Will Sam come to my office?
Yes, for the first appointment: Sam comes to your office for the measuring, a selection of cloth and the conversation, whether you work in Thornhill, downtown or in North York. Book it online or by phone and he will confirm the time and the address. The fitting on the finished garment is at the studio, a few minutes from Centre Street.
Does Sam make bar mitzvah suits?
Yes. Bar mitzvah suits for boys in Thornhill, cut to fit properly and made to look right in shul and at the celebration. Fathers are often measured at the same time.
How close is the studio to Thornhill?
About three kilometres south down Bathurst from Centre Street, under ten minutes by car. The studio sits on the Vaughan–Thornhill line at 318 Charlton Avenue, just north of Steeles, an easy trip from Bathurst & Clark or the Promenade.
Can Sam dress a whole Thornhill wedding party?
Yes. Groom, groomsmen and both fathers, booked into the studio together. Same fabric, coordinated details, the groom set gently apart. Custom wedding suits and tuxedos, never rented.
Measured personally.
At the Vaughan studio, or at your office for the first appointment. Start with a conversation.