We’re losing a very classy store in Kentucky. Dawahare’s clothing stores are closing as the business, after a 101 year run, comes to an end. I won’t go into the financial details, after all, they’ve always been a class act and deserve to be treated with the same respect. Suffice to say the economy bit the Lexington-based chain in the same spot its biting the rest of us!
Dawahare’s was founded in 1907 by S.F. Dawahare, who began as a peddler in the coal camps of Eastern Kentucky. He opened his first store around 1911 in East Jenkins. Dawahare’s clothing stores have stayed in the founder’s family for four generations.
Present Dawahare’s company president Harding Dawahare was been quoted as saying, “We are distressed — for our employees, our family, and for the thousands of loyal customers who have relied on Dawahare’s stores for clothing for their entire family for up to three generations. However, we hope to be able to exit the retail arena in Kentucky the way our family entered it a century ago — with dignity.”
And so they have.
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