Established 1928 · Beacon Hill
Three generations on Charles Street.
Barrett & Sons has made suits, coats, and shirts on Charles Street since 1928. Every commission is cut and adjusted to the client, and to no one else.
Our Story
Beacon Hill neighborhood tailor.
My grandfather Walter Barrett opened the shop in 1928, a short walk from the Boston Athenæum, and cut for many of its members. He believed a suit ought to outlast its first owner, and taught my father, and my father taught me.
We remain a small house: three cutters, an apprentice, and the same address on Charles Street we have kept for the better part of a century. Much of our work is quiet: a jacket taken in, a lapel restored, a father's dinner suit made to fit a son.
New clients are welcome, and are treated no differently from those we have dressed for forty years.
A word from a client
My father was a client of Walter Barrett's. I myself have been a client for thirty years. They don't fuss or oversell, and hit the mark consistently. That is a rarer combination than it ought to be.
Charles W. Endicott
Client since 1994
Come by
The shop is on Charles Street.
Fittings and new commissions are by appointment. We would be glad to sit with you, look at cloth, and take a first measurement.
- Address
- 84 Charles Street
Beacon Hill, Boston, MA 02114 - Telephone
- (617) 555-0128
Hours
- MondayBy appointment
- Tuesday10 to 6
- Wednesday10 to 6
- Thursday10 to 7
- Friday10 to 6
- Saturday10 to 4
- SundayClosed
First consultations are without charge or obligation.
Call the shop