Tip Top Tailors Building, Art Deco commercial structure on Lake Shore Boulevard West, Toronto, Canada

The Tip Top Tailors Building is a 1929 Art Deco complex of two joined masses: a cream-coloured stone or concrete block with vertical piers, zigzag parapet detailing and tall multi-pane windows, and a larger dark brown brick and glass curtain-wall section with horizontal window bands. Red capital letters reading "TIP TOP TAILORS", with "Eltaplof." and "1899" below, stand on the roof. A low metal fence and small coniferous trees line the street.

The structure was built in 1929 to house the Tip Top Tailors Ltd manufacturing operation, founded a generation earlier by Polish-Jewish immigrant David Dunkelman. In 2002, it transitioned from a factory to residential lofts while preserving its historic exterior.

The name survives in the red rooftop letters reading "Tip Top Tailors", with "Eltaplof." and a small "1899" below them; the sign was kept and given a slant during the 2002 conversion. The company behind it was founded in 1909 by David Dunkelman, a Polish-Jewish immigrant and father of Ben Dunkelman. The building is now the Tip Top Lofts, a condominium, so the former factory is seen from the street rather than entered.

The building stands at 637 Lake Shore Boulevard West, just west of Bathurst Street near the waterfront. The 2002 conversion by architectsAlliance added six storeys on the roof, and the neon rooftop sign was kept and given a slant. The low metal fence and small coniferous trees line the street-level edge.

The building's front entrance, not the whole facade, was used as the exterior of the police department in the TV series Monk. The 1929 Art Deco block also kept its neon rooftop Tip Top Tailors sign through the 2002 loft conversion, when it was given a slant.