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BY REBECCA SHERMAN. ART DIRECTION MICHELLE AVIÑA. PHOTOGRAPHY MOLLY DICKSON FOR SISTERBROTHER MGMT. HAIR AND MAKEUP CHER HUKILL FOR THE CAMPBELL AGENCY. L ike Eloise at the Plaza, 7-year-old Hadleigh — the charmer who inspired her family's bespoke clothing store in Highland Park Village — rules at home. That is, when little sister GG (short for Gable Gillian) isn't in charge. And both have been known to defer to 12-month-old Everleigh, who with a single cry sends the entire household scurrying to soothe. Romping their modern Highland Park roost in matching dresses that were handmade and smocked in Italy from men's shirting, these little girls are the progeny of retailing entrepreneurs Gable and Ed Shaikh, who opened the fashionable and discreet store named after their firstborn, in 2009. The men's made- to-measure atelier is by appointment only, offering Neapolitan tailoring with an expression of Saville Row — powerful, with a bit of the boardroom, explains Ed, who is also Hadleigh's creative director. A retail storefront downstairs, which opened in 2011, stocks limited-run attire for men and women made by the same Italian artisans who create the bespoke goods. A wholesale division — named after GG — sells Hadleigh's colorful, handcrafted signature smoking slippers to clients such as Neiman Marcus. The company has also designed and created the suiting for the front desk staff at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek and the Crescent Court hotel. A passion for beautiful clothes started early. Ed, who was born in Pakistan, grew up in London "with a father who had a good eye for gentleman's clothing," he says. After migrating to Austin to study at St. Edward's University, Ed's first job in 1996 was as a shoe salesman. "One thing led to another, and I grew up in the industry," he says. Gable's family moved from Highland Park to Manhattan when she was 9, where she took Saturday classes throughout high school at the Fashion Institute of Technology and where she also attended college. After graduation, she worked at Ralph Lauren's first vintage concept store in Soho — Tom Cruise and Sheryl Crow were two of her clients. The events of 9/11 brought her back to Dallas and a sales job at SHAIKH ED AND GABLE SHAIKH, PROPRIETORS OF ACHINGLY CHIC HADLEIGH'S, OPEN THE DOORS TO THEIR EQUALLY TAILORED AND METICULOUSLY DESIGNED ROMP OF A MODERN HOME. View from the rooftop into the center courtyard below, with the Shaikh family and their English pointers, Jack and Jill.