One of the leading and the youngest tailoring shops in the country, Dandi Mayo Creation and Designs, is currently making waves in the business of tailoring as it raises the bar and set the standards that other tailoring shops follow.
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| One of the beautiful men styles sewed by Dandi Mayo |
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| Saidou Njie, the proprietor of Dandi Mayo |
Owned by Saidou Njie, a young and enterprising youth, Dani Mayo was able to make name and distinguished itself from the numerous tailoring shops in the country within a very shop period of its establishment thanks to its quality works which makes the customers to advertise the company through word of mouth.
“Dandi Mayo is full of
young talented and enthusiastic professional tailors who have all the technical
knowhow of tailoring, particularly the latest styles of this generation,” the
27 year old proprietor of Dandi Mayo said in an interview with this paper at
his tailoring shop in Pipeline near the new Pipeline Police Post.
“To be specific, at
Dandi Mayo, we sew all types of dresses ranging from Dawumeh, Groufen,
Pakistani style, and Dessa-Deset for both men and women young and adults,” Mr
Njie added.
He continued: “Since seeing is believing; I am urging everyone
to come and see for themselves what we can do at Dandi Mayo especially now that
the Tobaski is approaching. Not that I
am blowing my own trumpet, but I can say that if anybody wants to wear the best
African dress during or after the Tobaski, the only place that can satisfy you is
Dandi Mayo.
“I do not want to talk
more of what I can do, but anyone whose clothes I sew once will always come
back. Even some of our customers who sometimes divert from us to another tailor,
always end up returning to us.”
According to Mr Njie,
when the company started operations in November 2008, only few customers were
coming. This, he said, was because many
people do not know the company very much then.
“But this only lasted for a few months, now customers came from every
corner of the town because of the peerless quality creations and designs we make
for them,” he remarked.
Speaking of his personal profile, Mr Njie said he spent eight years training tailoring in The Gambia, so have a wider experience and the technical knowhow of the profession
Mr Njie, a Senegalese
national, came to The Gambia in 1996 as a hustler in Farafenni, North Bank
Region and later moved to Kombo’s in 1997 and one year after he starting
learning tailoring under the supervision Aunty Ida Sallah.
“I have to give all my
credits to Aunty Ida Sallah as my only master that I can never forget in my
life time for what she has done for me during my training days under her care,”
Mr said. Adding: “I learned lot of things from her and I demonstrated the
knowledge gained from her when I went to my home country Senegal by working for
high profile tailoring shops in Dakar, to the surprise of my colleagues who
thought nobody can acquired such a high level of tailoring skills from The
Gambia.”
Njie said he owed his success
in tailoring to Aunty Ida Sallah as it is “because of her that I can do what I
am doing today”.
He advice other youths
who are currently learning tailoring to “maintain patience with their masters
because you cannot get any type of knowledge in this world without suffering
for it in one way or the other.”
He continued: “Let them
give all the maximum respect to their masters and obey them at all cost so that
they can also one day be their own master, like I am today. Anybody undergoing
apprenticeship in any profession you must exercise patience with your master
because along the way you may encounter certain difficulties which without being
patience you can quit.
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