When Sandak, ‘fleya’ made fashion sense

Fashion in the 80s was very interesting, old trousers like jeans and corduroy had survived the times. Then came Pepe jeans. I had one that I really treasured. The jeans were more fashionable from the usual magnum. I remember when we were young, our parents bought us new clothes during the December holidays. So on Christmas Day, one used to wake up early take a long shower and wait for the parents to remove the new clothes from plastic paper bag we used to refer to as juala.

Then after breakfast, which used to be the only time we came across Weetabix, cornflakes, sausages and hot dogs, we used to go out to show off to our friends the new clothes. I remember one Christmas I had been bought a new Pepe jeans and as I was playing ‘shake’, I fell and the threads gave in. I started crying as I knew the canning would be massive from my mother. But my good and always innovative friend Anto Kirori saved me as he knew how to use the sewing machine they owned.