In September 2025, Kep’s Menswear posted that it was leaving 112 W. Grant Avenue, moving to 320 N. Main Street, and changing its name. The address it moved into was already a Kepley business — Little Britches/Moodz Fashions, run by Leigh Kepley since 1983. The combined store is KepLeigh’s Clothing, and the practical result for a prom shopper in southwest Kansas is that the gown and the tuxedo are now the same trip to the same block of Main.
The gown side is the older half. Kepley opened in 1983 next to the State Theater as a children’s and maternity shop, with her mother, Mary Lee Springer, and her sister, Sandy Devore. It added juniors, then ladies, then shoes and accessories, and eventually prom. Talking to Greater Garden City in 2017, Kepley described adding prom and said that’s huge now
. The store marked forty years in September 2023.
The tux side rents through Jim’s Formal Wear, which lists the shop as an affiliated rental location. Kep’s ran men’s dress clothing and tuxedo rental before the move, and its email contact was Kendall Kepley.
Verified prom labels
- Sherri Hill
- Jovani
- Alyce Paris
- Colette
Those four list this store on their own retailer locators. The store record here shows no website, and there is no published inventory count, so what is actually on the rack in any given month is a phone call — (620) 275-7184 — or a look at the KepLeigh’s social accounts, where new arrivals get posted.
Who is driving in
Garden City High School enrolled 1,946 students in 2024–25, which makes it one of the larger 6A student bodies west of Wichita and the main source of prom demand at this address. Holcomb High School, seven miles west, had 265. Beyond those two, the hour-or-less ring around downtown covers Deerfield, Lakin, Cimarron, Sublette, Ulysses, Scott City, Leoti and Syracuse — towns where the high school graduating class is measured in dozens and there is no gown store at all.
That is the reason Main Street stays busy. Dodge City is about fifty miles east on US‑50; Wichita is closer to two hundred. Finney County’s economic development office has put it plainly: on weekends the town feels twice its size, because people come in from all over to shop.
Downtown parking is on-street and free, and the surrounding blocks include Brown’s Shoe Fit, Corner on Main and Patrick Dugan’s Coffee House, which matters if a fitting turns into an afternoon.
Formal season here is not only prom
Finney County is majority Hispanic — about 56 percent in Garden City — and roughly 28 percent of city residents were born outside the United States. Tyson Fresh Meats at Holcomb employs around 3,000 people and anchors that population. In a town built this way, the formalwear calendar runs on quinceañera dates as much as on the April and May prom weekends. What KepLeigh’s stocks specifically for quinceañeras is not something published anywhere, so it is worth asking directly rather than assuming either way.