Shareef Jefferson

Background

About Shareef Jefferson

MONEY NEVER SLEEPS; NEITHER DOES SHAREEF JEFFERSON (Philadelphia Weekly) Start­ing a small busi­ness isn’t easy; it’s a risky en­deavor and it doesn’t take much to fail. However, des­pite the po­ten­tial pit­falls, some people do muster up the cour­age to take a chance. Such is the case with ho­met­own banker turned en­tre­pren­eur Shareef E. Jef­fer­son, cre­at­or of Drape­worth, a line of ties that Jef­fer­son star­ted from the ground up. Jef­fer­son got his start in the fash­ion in­dustry very early on, re­leas­ing his first line at 22. Fash­ion runs in the fam­ily, he says, as he learned the in­ner work­ings of the busi­ness from his step­fath­er. These days you’ll find Jef­fer­son vis­it­ing of­fices around Cen­ter City, provid­ing cus­tom, one-on-one sales ex­per­i­ences to busy pro­fes­sion­als. In 2013, he fi­nally de­b­uted Drape­worth, and this past Novem­ber he launched Drape­worth.com, al­though he still primar­ily re­lies on in-per­son sales. His line has been fea­tured on loc­al news, and Drape­worth’s In­s­tagram page has quickly be­gun to gain trac­tion. Jef­fer­son still isn’t quite fin­ished build­ing yet; he plans to ex­pand the line, even­tu­ally in­tro­du­cing custom ties, handker­chiefs, cuff­links and wo­men’s scarves- Philadelphia Weekly