Blak Ragz™ was founded in 2003 by long- time friends, Stephanie Sanders and Shawtee Redd, after becoming frustrated with going shopping and only seeing the typical “girly” garments on the racks. They were jeans and t-shirt kind of girls who loved big, funky accessories to feminize their tomboyish styles and often found themselves locked in the back room of their apartment creating new looks from old thrift store finds.