Ben Sherman

A man who works here named Gal is incredibly helpful and sweet! He explained everything to me while I shopped for my boyfriends clothing. He needs to be promoted asap!

I was initially excited to finally have a Ben Sherman store in Toronto. That excitement quickly disappeared when I found out they didn’t carry most things on the website and that the Toronto store’s sales never match what’s happening with their American/​British stores and website. I’ve been to the store a few times yet have never left with anything. If you’re looking for decent prices on Ben Sherman stuff in Toronto stick with The Bay or if you’re heading to Buffalo, Lord & Taylor (Galleria Mall).

Ben Sherman was an institution for many years. Good quality clothing, half decent prices with modern designs for the fashion conscious gent. Then the chavs moved in and it went downhill. You can now find Ben shoulder to shoulder (pardon the pun) with the sad offerings of Michael Kors in Winners and any other low rent purveyor of all things cheap.
So why did Ben open up a brand new store on Queen west? Your guess is as good as mine but I think it has something to do with the fact that Canadians aren’t familiar with the term «chav brand». Ben still has a decent reputation here and this store is hoping to capitalize on that. Good luck. You should have opened ten years ago.
The store itself is small and was once occupied by Girl Friday and Lu Lu Lemon before that so you might remember how big it is and how poorly suited it was to showcasing racks of clothing.
I wish I had more good to say about it but the really isn’t anything noteworthy about it. You either like the brand and will shop here or don’t and will stay away. I do still like their fitted shirts but isn’t it about time we got away from plaid and checker patterns?