1974
Founding
Salvatore. Palermo to New York.
The house begins. Italian handwork set down on the East Side — a tailor’s shop meant to last longer than a season.
Since 1974 · 138 East 61stThe house
The house
that keeps the pattern.
Salvatore brought the craft from Palermo. Carl holds the helm. Nine master tailors still cut on 61st — your pattern stays for life.
- Origin
- Palermo, 1974
- Workshop
- Nine masters
- After
- Pattern kept
Palermo → 61st StreetA Sicilian hand.
A Sicilian hand.
A Manhattan address.
In 1974 Salvatore opened the house that still bears his name. The shop sits at 138 East 61st Street, Suite 201 — not a showroom alone, a working atelier where cloth is cut and fittings finish on the body.
Carl took the helm. The craft did not soften. Nine master tailors. Full canvas where it belongs. The pattern, once true, kept for every commission after.
The pattern stays.
That is the house.
L&S · Workshop line
Decades in the drawer.
Not a museum wall. The same work, carried forward — year by year, client by client, pattern by pattern.
61st
Address
138 East 61st Street, Suite 201.
The workshop you walk into today. Cloth on the table. Fitting light. The same street door clients still use.
Helm
Succession
Carl took the house forward.
Stewardship, not reinvention. The name on the door stayed Salvatore’s. The standard stayed the work.
Now
The bench
Nine master tailors. Pattern kept for life.
Every true pattern remains here. The next suit does not start from a catalog size — it starts from you, already known.
On the floorNine hands.
Nine hands.
One standard.
The bench is not a brand story. It is the daily work — canvas, chalk, needle, fitting — under one roof in Manhattan.
- Masters
- Nine
- Since
- 1974
- Kept
- Your pattern
- Place
- Suite 201
What does not leaveYour pattern
Your pattern
stays in the house.
Once the fit is true, the paper remains. Commissions after begin from measured reality — not a fresh guess at the rack.
A drawer, not a slogan.
138 East 61st · Suite 201
Come see the workshop.
Sixty minutes on the floor. Cloth you can hold. The house that still cuts here.
VisitL&S Tailors · 138 East 61st Street, Suite 201 · New York
Fifty years, one address: a custom tailor on 61st Street.