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Lou Myles: The first thing you look at in a suit is the shoulders, says Italian-born men's clothing designer.
Lou Myles: The first thing you look at in a suit is the shoulders, says Italian-born men's clothing designer.

Lou Myles: The first thing you look at in a suit is the shoulders, says Italian-born men's clothing designer.

Date12/5/1980
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  • Lou Myles: The first thing you look at in a suit is the shoulders, says Italian-born men's clothing designer.
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Polished look: Lou Myles, above, creates, left, a black and white suit, $895, worn with a striped shirt, $110, and silk tie, $80.
Polished look: Lou Myles, above, creates, left, a black and white suit, $895, worn with a striped shirt, $110, and silk tie, $80.
Loek, Dick
7/7/1988
Service plus: Right, customers who brave Lou Myles' locked store entrance get top personal service, even a limousine ride.
Service plus: Right, customers who brave Lou Myles' locked store entrance get top personal service, even a limousine ride.
Loek, Dick
7/7/1988
Send in the clones: Don Myles of IBM Canada, left, and Andre Turgeon announce launch of new company that will sell low-cost computers yesterday.
Send in the clones: Don Myles of IBM Canada, left, and Andre Turgeon announce launch of new company that will sell low-cost computers yesterday.
Stuparyk, Michael
6/4/1992
Tim Myles
Tim Myles
Spremo, Boris
7/19/1993
Myles' first job was gambling: 'To keep the family eating I shot craps and laundered the money through my mother'
Myles' first job was gambling: 'To keep the family eating I shot craps and laundered the money through my mother'
Loek, Dick
9/26/1978
Don Matheson and Paul Myles
Don Matheson and Paul Myles
Stuparyk, Michael
11/22/1996
Head and shoulders above the rest, Craig Roberts, 28, of Mississauga gives Little Brother Justin Sopha a ride on a pair of wide shoulders.
Head and shoulders above the rest, Craig Roberts, 28, of Mississauga gives Little Brother Justin Sopha a ride on a pair of wide shoulders.
Stawicki, Andrew
4/18/1992
An event five feet tall, Harry (Bob) Voulgaris, a restaurant owner (right), is fitted for a sports jacket in a new clothing shop restricted to men no taller than five-feet-five inches. Shop owner Lou Brown, left, says short men, generally pay too much for clothes, suffer humiliation in some stores.
An event five feet tall, Harry (Bob) Voulgaris, a restaurant owner (right), is fitted for a sports jacket in a new clothing shop restricted to men no taller than five-feet-five inches. Shop owner Lou Brown, left, says short men, generally pay too much for clothes, suffer humiliation in some stores.
Loek, Dick
12/29/1977
Once considered essential, the vest became practically an obsolete article of men's clothing over the past 20 years or so
Once considered essential, the vest became practically an obsolete article of men's clothing over the past 20 years or so
Bull, Ron
4/3/1973
A tall order: Mike Crosby, owner of Erin Tree Farm in Erin Township, shoulders a Scotch pine Christmas tree and prepares it for shipment. His pay-and-cut farm is on Concession 10, 4 kilometres north of Highway 24.
A tall order: Mike Crosby, owner of Erin Tree Farm in Erin Township, shoulders a Scotch pine Christmas tree and prepares it for shipment. His pay-and-cut farm is on Concession 10, 4 kilometres north of Highway 24.
Calleja, Frank
11/25/1990
Riding high: Roger Hollander is hoisted on the shoulders of John Piner, left, and Bruce Cox after winning the by-election to fill the vacant Ward 7 seat on city council last night
Riding high: Roger Hollander is hoisted on the shoulders of John Piner, left, and Bruce Cox after winning the by-election to fill the vacant Ward 7 seat on city council last night
Stawicki, Andrew
10/29/1987
Jack Dancygier gives his attention to customer Lou Sugar in his barber shop at Adelaide and Peter Sts. His manicurist is Gilda Facoetti. A survivor of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, Jack is grateful for the peace that has come to him and wife in Canada, where they have raised three sons. He and his wife were married secretly by a rabbi in a concentration camp. Their first son was born there, too.
Jack Dancygier gives his attention to customer Lou Sugar in his barber shop at Adelaide and Peter Sts. His manicurist is Gilda Facoetti. A survivor of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, Jack is grateful for the peace that has come to him and wife in Canada, where they have raised three sons. He and his wife were married secretly by a rabbi in a concentration camp. Their first son was born there, too.
Bezant, Graham
7/5/1973