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The family emigrated to the United States, and Mashouf eventually earned a degree in political science from San Francisco State University in 1966. Over the next decade, he opened a steakhouse that expanded to three more locations in the San Francisco area, but came upon an empty storefront on Polk Street in the city one day in 1976, and decided it would be an ideal place to start the clothing business he had been thinking of launching.