Our fathers were way too stylish

NAIROBI: For three-plus decades, the enlarged framed black-and-white picture on our living room’s wall could as well have been labeled, “Tastemakers”. The picture was of three of my father’s brothers.

In the picture, shot in the Sixties in a studio, the trio who are in their mid- to late-twenties, are dressed in fitting two-buttoned coats, fitting half-break trousers, white shirts, thin ties and pointed leather shoes.