Loro Piana
Founded 1924 · Quarona, Italy
The world's largest buyer of the finest cashmere, and one of the few mills authorized to work with vicuña. Tasmanian super 170s and beyond.
Est. Sacramento
Custom suits in Sacramento and the Bay Area. Your place, your pace.
Sam Cole brings the showroom to your home, office or club. Take your time with questions, fabrics and details, or keep it simple with a classic black, navy or charcoal suit that finally fits. Every fitting after that comes to you. Made to measure from $999, bespoke from $5,000.
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Sacramento · Bay Area · By appointment onlyZegna · Loro Piana · Holland & Sherry · Scabal · Dormeuil · VBC
What Sam makes
Suits and tuxedos, cut from your measurements.
Crowned Legacy Suits makes custom suits, tuxedos, sport coats, shirts, trousers, knitwear and outerwear. Every suit is cut from your own measurements: chest and waist separately, sleeves to your bicep and forearm, and trousers to your seat and thigh. A natural shoulder with light or no padding and a higher armhole are both available at $999. Sport coats and outerwear start at $499, knitwear at $299.
The Black Tuxedo
Herringbone · Double-breasted · Peak lapel
The Navy Windowpane
Single-breasted · Notch
The Oatmeal Flannel
Soft tailoring · Notch
The Royal Blue Windowpane
Peak lapel · Ticket pocket
The Hunter Green
Country club · Notch
The Cloth
The cloth library. Swatches in hand at the consultation.
Twelve cloth sources: nine Italian mills, plus Holland & Sherry, Scabal and Dormeuil. Suits in Reda or Vitale Barberis Canonico start at $1,500, and each source's starting price is on the cloth page. Vicuña and baby cashmere are available made to measure and bespoke, and both are priced by quote.
Ermenegildo Zegna
Founded 1910 · Trivero, Italy
Vertically integrated from sheep to shop, defining super 130s and super 150s wools with modern hand and refined drape.
Fratelli Piacenza
Founded 1733 · Biella, Italy
Three centuries of expertise in superfine merino, baby camelhair, and rare vicuña. One of the oldest continuously operating wool mills in the world.
Lanificio Cerruti
Founded 1881 · Biella, Italy
Italian elegance in fine wool, cashmere, and silk. Founded by Antonio Cerruti and brothers on the banks of the river Cervo.
Vitale Barberis Canonico
Founded 1663 · Biella, Italy
The world's oldest continuously operating wool mill, family-owned for 13 generations. Classic worsteds, tropical wools, and versatile suiting from Italy's textile heartland.
Lanificio Guabello
Founded 1815 · Biella, Italy
Refined Italian suiting cloths with a distinct Biella character. Family origins in the eighteenth century, with the Royal Flannel collection a benchmark for menswear since the 1930s.
Drago
Founded 1973 · Lessona, Biella, Italy
A modern Biella mill known for super 130s through super 180s, mastery of color, and contemporary innovation rooted in 50+ years of fabric archives.
Reda
Founded 1865 · Biella, Italy
Italian innovation in performance wool and sustainability. Known for Active stretch suiting and the Rewoolution recycled wool collection.
Lanificio Carlo Barbera
Founded 1949 · Biella, Italy
Biella's premier mill, owned by Kiton, the world-renowned bespoke house. Specializing in superfine wools and the kind of jacketing cloths that earn lifetime loyalty.
Holland & Sherry
Founded 1836 · London, England
The benchmark for structured British worsteds, dinner-jacket cloths, and classic flannels.
Scabal
Founded 1938 · Brussels & Huddersfield, England
Innovation in cloth construction and bold pattern, super 100s through super 250s.
Dormeuil
Founded 1842 · Paris, France
French house that designs in Paris and weaves in Huddersfield, known for Tonik, the mohair and wool blend that defined mod era tailoring.
How a bespoke jacket is madeThe construction story →
Forty hours of handwork. One bespoke garment.
A bespoke Crowned Legacy jacket is built with hand-stitched chest canvas, horsehair canvas interfacing and handmade lapel buttonholes.
Each bespoke pattern is drafted from scratch against your measurements and kept as a reference for later commissions. The canvas is layered, basted, and shaped by hand.
On a bespoke jacket, every buttonhole is sewn by hand and every collar is set by hand. The only machine work is the long seams, and even those are pressed open by iron and shaped to the body before the lining ever closes the interior.
Made to measure is cut from your measurements too. At $999 the jacket is fused. From $1,500 it is half canvas, and full canvas is available from $2,000.
The Craft
The details, up close. Lapels, pockets and linings are your choice.
The Discipline Dividend
When alterations can no longer reach, the suit is remade.
A suit is built to a body, and bodies change. When yours changes past what the garment can be altered to fit, Crowned Legacy Suits remakes it at no charge, once per garment, with no time limit.
You never have to explain the change, and it does not matter which direction it went. Sam remeasures you at a fitting. If alterations no longer reach, the remake is yours, in the same cloth if it is still available, or a comparable cloth you choose together.
A personal guarantee
My name is Sam Cole. This is my promise.
I come to your office, your home or your hotel, wherever works for you, and I bring the cloth and the tape.
If something I make does not fit the way it should, I keep working on it until it does. That is the Perfect Fit Guarantee: made perfect, or corrected until it is.
Sam Cole, Master Tailor
- 40+
- Hours of handwork per bespoke garment
- 0
- Trips to a store or a tailor
- 12
- Cloth sources, woven in Italy and Britain
The consultation
Ninety minutes with Sam. At your home, office or club.
You finish knowing what already works in your wardrobe, what has not, and what will.
Sacramento · Bay Area · 916.520.4106
Step one of four
What does the calendar have in store?
Every commission starts with the occasion it has to rise to.
Frequently asked
What to know before you book.
- Do you really come to my home or office?
- Yes. Sam comes to your home, office, club or hotel anywhere in the Sacramento metro and the Bay Area, for the consultation, every fitting and the delivery.
- What happens at the consultation?
- It takes ninety minutes and costs nothing, with no obligation to order. You choose the cloth and the details, and Sam takes your measurements. Most men can tell a suit is off and cannot say why. Sam can. The most common reasons are on the fit pages.
- How much does a bespoke suit cost?
- Bespoke suits start at $5,000. Made to measure starts at $999, and suits in named mill cloth such as Vitale Barberis Canonico or Reda start at $1,500. Shirts start at $199 and tuxedos at $999. Sam confirms your price at the consultation, before any cloth is cut. The full breakdown, tier by tier, is on the cost page.
- What is the difference between bespoke and made to measure tailoring?
- Made to measure starts from a house pattern adjusted to your measurements. It takes four to eight weeks: fused at $999, half canvas from $1,500, full canvas available from $2,000. Bespoke drafts a new pattern from scratch for your body. It is always full canvas, with a basted fitting along the way, takes three to six months and starts at $5,000. The pattern is kept as a reference for later commissions. For a first suit, made to measure is the sensible place to start. Both carry the Perfect Fit Guarantee, and the comparison page goes through the rest.
- How long does a bespoke suit take to make?
- Three to six months. Cloth is sourced for your specific commission, a pattern is drafted before anything is cut, and each fitting is scheduled around your availability. Made to measure is faster, at four to eight weeks.
- What mills do you source cloth from?
- Twelve cloth sources. The nine Italian mills are Loro Piana, Ermenegildo Zegna, Vitale Barberis Canonico, Fratelli Piacenza, Reda, Drago, Lanificio Cerruti, Lanificio Guabello and Lanificio Carlo Barbera. The other three are Holland & Sherry, Scabal and Dormeuil. Each source's starting price is on the cloth page.
- What if the suit does not fit perfectly?
- Sam keeps working until it does. Whatever you order is covered by the Perfect Fit Guarantee: made perfect, or corrected until it is, with alterations within reasonable scope at no charge for the life of the garment. If your body later changes more than alterations can reach, the Discipline Dividend remakes the garment once, at no charge.
- Do you alter suits bought elsewhere?
- No. Sam offers alterations on garments he makes and refers other alterations out.
- What service area do you cover?
- The Sacramento metro and the Bay Area. Around Sacramento: Sacramento, Roseville, Rocklin, Folsom, Granite Bay, El Dorado Hills and Elk Grove. In the Bay Area: Walnut Creek, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose, Marin and Napa. Sam also travels elsewhere in Northern California; ask when you book. Every town Sam covers is on the locations page.