Morvant fireman creates urban clothing brand

There is al­ways a cer­tain lev­el of risk in­volved in busi­ness – risks that may some­times re­sult in loss­es. Own­er of Fly Young Gen­tle­man Ap­par­el, Ephraim Kadeem Ser­rette has been there, but he has re­fused to al­low this set­back from pre­vent­ing him to con­tin­ue to build his brand.

Fly Young Gen­tle­man Ap­par­el (FY­GA) car­ries T-shirts, hood­ies and hats for men, all with lo­cal cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance.

“Last year I had sourced some jer­seys from a com­pa­ny in In­dia. So they made the jer­seys, and they did the prints as well. The qual­i­ty was good, so I or­dered some­thing again, and paid my mon­ey. I haven’t heard back from them since, so I had to cut that as a loss. But I couldn’t let that stop me from con­tin­u­ing the busi­ness.”