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player ready...Chicago designer Dahlia had had ”enough with the rags.”
”I had just had it with those ripped, raggedy jeans we were all wearing this summer,” says the Jamaican-born designer, who is celebrating the first anniversary of her clothing shop (called Dahlia), 708 N. Wabash Ave. ”I decided I wanted a more tailored look and so I put the two things I like best together: leather and denim.”
The result is a pair of denim trousers with leather chaps.
”I had no idea there would be this kind of interest,” she says. ”At first I just made a pair for myself. Then Frank (Gross, Dahlia`s business manager) wanted a pair and then our regular customers started coming in and asking for them-both men and women. The jeans are kind of expensive, but for the people who can afford them, well, they come in here, try them on and think they`re in heaven.”
The pants cost $175 a pair and come in all sorts of leather and color combinations.
”The whole idea is to create this very urban look,” she says.