Hall Madden — Local services in West Chicago Township

Picture this: it's 6 weeks before you're wedding, and you feel pretty prepared. Venue, check. Food, check. Booze, check. Suit, check....or so you thought. Your fiancé tells you out of nowhere, "I don't really like the color of the suit you're getting anymore." Confidence in your look for the big day? Shattered, and you are left scrambling in the rubble trying to find anything to fit the new vision in your significant other's mind. No off-the-rack place seems to have the look, and you turn to custom suiting as a last ditch effort.

A "Best custom suits in Chicago" Google search provides you with options, with one consistent name on the myriad of lists you see, Hall Madden. You send an email, half expecting to be turned down, seeing as a custom suit in a 6 week time frame is monumental, but to your delight, there is light at the end of the tunnel, as a friendly Kiyoshi replies, "we can do it." Ecstatic because of the too-good-to-be-true news, you can't help but wonder, what's the catch? It's probably going to be very expensive, especially given my situation. Let me just say, this was not the case at all, and Kiyoshi was as friendly, professional, and honest in person as he was in that email.

From the first conversation, Kiyoshi was ready to get things rolling, and asked me questions about the look I was trying to achieve. He not only offered me my options and provided insight on each, but also provided me with helpful advice and knowledge on questions I had about the process and the suit/tuxedo (ended up going with a tux). After this first meeting, I decided to go all in on Hall Madden, and he got to work.

The fitting was first, and Kiyoshi demonstrated his expertise right off the bat by not only showing me the different places that he was going to have altered to fit my physique, but also explained why off-the-rack suits fit me the way they did. I even learned that I naturally have my right shoulder lower than my left due to me being right-handed, which I never knew! Aftet the fitting, I got a chance to pick out everything about my tux, from the outer color and inner lining color (obviously, since my fiancé needed to put her stamp of approval), to the lapels, to the color of the jetted pockets (I even chose to have it monogrammed to boot). Feeling once again confident, I waited anxiously for the suit to come in, and in 4 weeks it did. For the final fitting, some small alterations were still needed, but got done quickly and in time for the wedding. The end result was stunning.

The final Burgundy tuxedo with black satin lapels was one worthy of being next to my beautiful wife's ivory A-line wedding dress with lace details. I walked down the aisle with her, arm in arm and my head held high, as I knew I looked damn good. Of course, the compliments came as is probably customary to do on someone's wedding day, but something tells me these were genuine.

To sum, my wedding day would not have been as special had Hall Madden not been a part of it. They brought a vision to life, and made me feel like I was the sharpest dressed guy in the room, which I totally was. Thank you Kiyoshi for giving me my...

My fiance & I are doing a mountain elopement style in Italy this summer. He didn't want to spend time going to different stores trying to find brown suit, he knows it will be difficult in Chicago considering we mainly have white, blacks, navy, royal blue, beige/cream & maroon. Even though we are 50mins away we decided to just scheduled with Hall Madden. Booking the appointment was easy & was able to share Kiyoshi some photo inspo of the color we wanted.The space is organized and clean. Kiyoshi made the first appointment less stressful & fun + even offered free drinks. They have so many fabric options, but Kiyoshi picked out 6 of the closest shade of browns we wanted. Coming in we didn't know the experience process and it was just awesome that we get to pick out every detail from fabric, tailoring style, to event selecting buttons. My fiance ended up also ordering dress shirt, pre-tied bow tie & shoes. Kiyoshi seemed to have measured my fiance perfectly on the first visit with the try own suit they have in store. However, when my fiance custom order arrived both top & pants was baggy, it didn't look slim fit like how he was measured on the first time. It needed alterations so we didn't get to take it home on our 2nd visit. We were also shocked the material for the shoes was suede. We thought we were just picking out the color of the shoes & that the material will be like the leather my fiance tried on at the store. The shoes looked great but if feels like we spent money on a material that my fiance probably would not wear again after the wedding. On the 3rd visit, Kiyoshi wasn't there. The lady at the store asked if my fiance needed (not would you like) to try on the suit. Making it sound like she just want us to grab and go. Since it was baggy the first time of course my fiance had to try it on. The lady recommended not to do anything with the suit after we think it was still a little loose. Specially the arms, looks like one side is looser than the other. It feels like they need to work on their scheduling as well, the 2nd & 3rd time we had to wait + the other customer were still around the one table setting area they have & their coat were by the only couch area at the store while my fiance try on his suit. I wish they also give good customer service all the way to pick up day. It feels like they just do so on the first appointment because even offering drinks was just on the first...

My experience with Hall Madden was nothing short of excellent. I was in the market for a custom tux for my wedding and came across Hall Madden on Reddit. They had great reviews so I decided to give them a try over other providers like Suitsupply (which I have used before, wasn't a bad experience but definitely wasn't anything that would make me need to go back there).

Kiyoshi is the tailor at Hall Madden and he does a tremendous job. He is located in an office in the loop right on Michigan Avenue that is very easy to get to (and has an amazing view of the lake). You schedule your appointment with Hall Madden online and Kiyoshi responds to confirm. I had several appointments with Kiyoshi, starting with the initial consultation to see if Hall Madden would be a good fit for what I'm looking for. Kiyoshi asked me what I had in mind and didn't push or pressure me into anything and was happy to provide his vast amount of knowledge wherever I needed some advice. After deciding on a custom tux at the initial meeting, the next visit was to get sized and pick out all of the smaller details like interior lining on the vest and inside pocket fabric for the jacket. Then the most amazing part about Hall Madden is that they send a custom test suit to see how everything looks before they make the actual suit. This was very helpful in my case as a few items needed adjusting and Kiyoshi was very attentive and detailed oriented while marking down these adjustments. On the final visit, my tux was ready and my bride to be and I were over the moon about it. It was ready well in advance of the big day, and that definitely helped ease our minds on that front.

From start to finish, Kiyoshi was amazing to work with and I would highly recommend him to anyone in the market for a custom...