Participants of Keretapi Sarong posing at an LRT station. Pix: The StarKUALA LUMPUR: Self-employed Maej Azripedita loves dressing up as his favorite comic characters but this time his Spiderman costume came with a sarong.

“My mother suggested tying the sarong over my suit and I was surprised at how cool it looked,” said Maej, 25.

Together with his friend and fellow Spidey Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Fatah, 27, they turned heads when they boarded the LRT at the Titiwangsa station in conjunction with Keretapi Sarong.

“The sarong I'm wearing is my first, which was given to me by my father when I enrolled in boarding school,” said Abdul Muhaimin, who is a bank officer.

The duo joined hundreds of others who ditched their jeans and skirts to wear the versatile cloth yesterday evening.

Student Ain Farahin Norihan, 23, getting some help from her friend Abdul Karim Bial Kurus to tie her sarong. Pix: The StarKeretapi Sarong, now in its second year, is modeled after the No Pants Subway movement in New York, which mobilised 1,200 New Yorkers to wear anything but pants on the train in 2009.

It was organized by bizarre events group Random Alphabets, which was also behind the KL Freeze and Glee Flashmob Dance.

Many people also stopped to take photographs with project coordinator Hazri Zainuddin in his black ninja costume.

“I dressed up as a colorful sarong ninja last year,” said Hazri, 23, who boarded the train at the Pudu LRT station.


By Loshana K Shagar / The Star

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