The Selecter: Survival Inna Suburbia
Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 23 February 1980
It took him ages to get the lapel of his jacket off. The scissors kept on cutting the cloth instead of the bits of stitching, but they wouldnt give him a paper-round till he was over ten, and that wasnt for another six months. Hed asked his mum for the money to buy one of those suits at C&A, but she said that would have to wait for his birthday, too.
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