Martin S.
Yelp
This is my favorite clothing boutique and I am reviewing it mainly as a, umm, corrective to other reviews here. Sydney's is notable for several things: first it provides the elsewhere remarked upon custom jeans service, which while expensive, will leave you in possession of a beautiful for-life level of durable and totally *yours* pair of denim trousers. This is good service to have available in the city, even if it is not at the moment your particular bag. Likewise, I recently purchased a nice simple (relatively) cheap black suit here. While the trousers fit me perfectly, the suit itself needed a few adjustments, actually quite a bit more than I would have been comfortable with at any other tailor, but Sydney is a 'suit wizard' and for only around 85$ on top of the price of the suit I have a jacket that fits me perfectly.
Besides the custom tailoring option, Sydney's has one of the most discriminating buyer's around, someone who every season provides a selection of clothes that embody some very important principles: they are modern, and i don't mean contemporary or 'hip', I mean, they embody ideas of modernism, they are sleek, often monochrome, with clean lines and a lack of excessive accoutrements. This is very important to me, and, I imagine, to a lot of other potential shoppers. I don't want clothing that will look out of date...well, ever. Look at a picture of Samuel Beckett in the 20's, or 30's, or 40's or...etc. Always sharp, always clean lines, never once would have looked unfashionable on a street in Toronto or NY today. Sydney's stocks these sorts of clothes.