Toscano’s

Paul Gencarella is the longtime owner of Toscano’s Men’s Shop on Canal Street in Westerly, Rhode Island and has been dressing the men on my mom’s side of my family for decades. I have been tagging along on trips to Toscano’s since I could walk, and to me, the bright red gift box with crisp, white Toscano’s script is synonymous with Christmas. They have been opened by my dad or my uncles or my grandfather every year for as long as I can remember. 

He was the first person I reached out to when I started asking people around town for portrait sessions that will go towards my new portfolio, and he immediately obliged. 

Paul started working in Toscano’s as a kid when downtown Westerly supported five men’s stores. According to Paul they all got along, too. Bigger department stores in strip malls built outside of Westerly’s downtown core combined with a more casual style of dress for men spelled the end for all but one. 

Generations of loyal customers, out of towers in need of a new shirt for a wedding, Tuxedo rentals for proms and weddings and now dry cleaning all keep him busy. 

You go to Toscano’s if you want quality dress shirts and pants, suits, overcoats, stetsons and assorted men’s clothing accessories tailored to fit. The good stuff, made right and made to last.