For Toronto, twenty-five minutes north.

A downtown showroom prices its lease into every order. Sam works from a studio in Vaughan instead, and you make the trip properly once: after the first visit your measurements are on file, so the next order is a phone call. If the drive is the obstacle, a short first visit at your home can be arranged.

Most custom suits sold in Toronto are sold downtown, and the downtown price carries the room they are sold in: the lounge, the reception desk, the Bay Street lease. None of that is in the jacket. Sam's overhead is a studio in Vaughan, twenty-five minutes north of the core, so the money goes into fabric and labour instead of the rent.

The part that surprises Toronto clients most is the speed. Ask around the downtown houses and you will be quoted somewhere near eight to ten weeks to a first fitting, with alterations a week or two after that. Sam makes a suit in three to four weeks, and the alterations are part of the order rather than a bill at the end. For a man with a wedding in September or a job that starts in a month, that is not a detail, it is the whole decision.

The trade-off is honest and worth stating plainly: you make the trip once. The first visit is the long one, and after it your measurements are on file, so the second suit and the tenth are a phone call. A downtown showroom saves you a drive you make once and charges you for it on every order after that.

And if the drive is the thing stopping you, it no longer has to be. A short first visit at your home or office can be arranged, which for a downtown client means the measuring and the choosing happen where you already are. It is arranged on the phone rather than booked online, and the fitting on the finished garment still happens at the studio, where the mirrors and the full fabric range live.

Toronto is a wedding city and Sam works it every season. Grooms, groomsmen and both fathers are measured together in one session and matched on fabric and colour, so the group photograph agrees with itself instead of looking assembled from four shops. Custom suits and tuxedos, made to fit, never a rental cut for the last man who wore it.

From a Bay Street business suit to a black-tie tuxedo to the traditional garments Sam has made for this community for thirty years: one man measures you, one man fits you, and you get a firm price before anything is cut.

For Toronto clients, Sam makes custom suits, wedding suits & tuxedos, business suits, custom shirts and traditional menswear, all measured personally.

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The studio

318 Charlton Avenue · Vaughan, Ontario

Telephone

647 · 458 · 0711