Angelo Tailors

Angelo was the best… I had many suits, pants, and shirts tailored by this man. Never a complaint. RIP my Friend.

DON’T DO IT! I went to Angelo tailors for several years and usually the work was decent but not always. He never cared too much about your opinion but felt that with his years he knew it all including his need at times to even the need to measure things. The last time I went in I had a brand new suit jacket on which needed the back taken in, I tried it on, he quickly pinched the fabric and said okay without pinning it or measuring. Sure enough when I came to pick it up it was so tight could barely get it on. I reminded him that he did not measure and instead of an apology I got a ‘what’s wrong, you want it in, I take it in’. Unbelievable. Then says if you don’t like it I take it out. I came back and this time he undid the entire alteration and completely wrecked the fabrics on the back. Again instead of an apology I got ‘what’s your problem, you want it out now, I take it out’. He ruined my new $ 250 jacket and basically told me too bad! Some way to treat a repeat customer who went there for years, what a complete donkey. I could not decide if it was the old age or just complete arrogance and stupidity. Needless to say I tell everyone not to go there, he does not deserve your business.

Angelo Papa, trained in Italy, is now far past retirement but he is extremely hard working and I often see the light on in the back of his shop when I go by at night. He is not a talkative person but you don’t go to a tailor to chat.
I was introduced to him over 20 years ago when I tagged along with male friends of mine. Since then he has made me a beautiful pair of wool trousers, has done some very complex repair jobs on my favorite clothing items and the unseen female pixies who do invisible mending for him were worth the price. That is a dying art as is good tailoring. Most recently he measured me for shirts and they were sent to Montréal to be made. I do have one caveat: like most tailors his business is overwhelmingly male and a jacket he made for me looked like a man’s jacket on a smaller scale. His small shop has shelves full of fabric sample books and there are some beautiful choices.