Schlesinger’s uniforms has been around since 1898. That’s 117 years of supplying custom uniforms to the people of New York, and our family is on its fourth generation devoted to supplying chefs, security, and police uniforms to the hard workers of our city.
As you might imagine, after all of those 117 years we’ve learned quite a bit.
Follow Design: Sometimes we’re not the designers. For instance, when we’re providing uniforms to the United States Postal Service, we’re given the design. Same when we make NYPD uniforms…they’re not going to just let us add anything we want to them, because that would defeat the point of it being a standard uniform. But we can make sure that every officer looks good by making it fit the best it possibly can.
Create Style: When you’re coming to us with needs for a security uniforms or custom chef’s aprons, you might have the design in hand from another designer, or you might need us to help you decide which might be best for you. Because we’ve been at this for more than a century, we know current styles (and have helped shape them ourselves!) Tell us your security personnel’s duties, or what kind of restaurant you’re running, and we can guide you to the uniform that will work best.
Don’t say no to a job!: Broadway show are one of the biggest tourists draws to NYC, and we’ve had our share of movies and television shows shot here to. While they all have their own costume departments, we’re happy to say that, because they want the ultimate in authenticity, we’ve outfitted dozens of them over the years.
When you come to Schlesinger’s uniforms, you’ve got the full history of our experience to help you. Call us or contact us here!
Since 1934, Schlesinger’s Uniforms has been providing uniforms wardrobe to hundreds of Motion Picture and Television projects. Our craftmanship is known across the country to members of the industry. Movie and television industry professionals have been using Schlesinger’s Uniforms wardrobe for award winning-productions since we started 4 generats ago. We can qiuckly provide the uniforms you need to your main character as well as your entire cast.
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We have been supplying uniforms for movies and television for more than 80 years. We started doing this back in the 1930s on a small scale in New York and we quickly became the go to uniforms supplire for cinema and television productions in the USA.
Our police uniforms, post uniforms, hospitality uniforms, medical uniforms, etc. have appeared to date in more than 500 productions for the big and small screen.
The best thing about using our uniforms is that we can make standard, real-live uniforms as well as custom made uniforms that resemble the real ones but are customized to the specific cinema production needs as well. All our uniforms are new, never refurbished and this is why they are highly valued in the movie industry.
If you need uniforms for your film or short feature, simply let us know. Simply include a photo of the uniform in question, along with a short description of what you need and leave the rest to us.
When someone has an interaction with a security guard, it’s important that they both know who’s in charge. People seeking help are relieved to give up the power to the person in the security uniform, while others are trying to challenge the authority. Give a guard the right uniform and the balance of power become obvious.
But not everyone is providing security for the same purpose, and uniforms have to be tailored to meet these needs. For example:
For the building – If you own a building and are looking for security uniforms for just a couple of guards, you might not think that they need much in the way of uniforms. But the more official your guards look, the more secure your clients / residents will feel. Much in the way that a doorman is meant to look a certain way, security should be identifiable immediately so that the right people are comforted while the wrong people are intimidated. A well-designed uniform has to do both, and that’s what we’ve been doing for NYC for more than 115 years. It’s amazing what just a couple pieces of well-tailored cloth can do!
For the fleet – If you own a security company that travels around in vehicles checking on buildings and responding to alarms, the people who interact with them won’t recognize them as security unless they are properly outfitted. So when one of your guards is confronted about why he or she is at a specific location, it should be obvious what their job is and why they’re there. The uniform helps them come in and take immediate control of a situation, letting everyone know who’s in charge (unless the police arrive, of course!)
For the money – Some security uniforms are just meant to say “do not disturb.” Here we’re thinking specifically about security uniforms for armored car security. These security uniforms are not designed to be friendly at all. But they do need to be as comfortable and flexible as police uniforms because they’re working with large bags and having to bend over while constantly be aware.
We’ve been a uniform store in Manhattan for more than a century and learned long ago what different security uniforms have to say different things. Come to us and we’ll get you the perfect uniforms for your guards.