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May 11, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News
(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh people does got a strange idea these days about what is “dressing up.” Long time when people say they going to a big function, it mean they ironing clothes, polishing shoes and trying to look respectable. Now dressing up mean wearing as little as will be allowed without being naked.
One lady went to a party wearing a dress so small that even the mosquitoes had to line up single file to bite she. Dem boys seh if she bend one more inch, the whole function woulda turn into an emergency. Another one walk in with so much skin showing that the security guard nearly ask she if she forget the rest of the outfit in the taxi.
And leh we nah talk about the designers. Dem people making millions selling less cloth than a kitchen rag. Every year the material shrinking but the price climbing. One designer sell a dress with more holes than fabric and call it “fashion.” Dem boys seh if poor people clothes tear up like that, people does call it hardship, but once a rich designer do it, everybody calling it style.
Nowadays people attending events wearing less clothes than they own nightie. Some dresses so transparent that if you standing behind the person, you can read WhatsApp messages through the material. One woman pass and a man nearly choke on he drink because he didn’t know whether to compliment the dress or apologise to he wife.
The men ain’t easy either. Some of dem squeezing into pants tighter than tax money. Every pocket outline showing clear-clear. You can tell who carrying phone, key, loose change and blood pressure tablets.
But the real thing is that nobody pretending again that fashion supposed to leave something to the imagination. Imagination done retire. Everything now on public display like market day. Dem boys seh one more cut-out in some of these outfits and people gon start paying VAT on exposed skin.
In the old days, grandmothers used to tell people cover up and behave decent. Now grandmothers watching these fashions and clutching they chest like they see jumbie. One granny seh she ain’t vex with the young people; she just trying to understand how a whole dress could lose a fight with one pair scissors.
Talk half. Leff half.
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