Zara And The Star Of David

[sp1814]

This seems like a simple oversight.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/27/zara-removes-striped-pyjamas-with-yellow-star-following-online-outrage

But what is it with newspapers nowadays? Are they addicted to the word 'outrage' even where nobody is really outraged?

[ChillDoubt]

LOL, pathetic Gromit. Nitpicking in the extreme. Did you have to go to such detail? I'm just pointing out that it bears a resemblance, you've gone into microscopic detail, which is good of you. Shane you couldn't post a colour picture of the uniforms in your post though. Wonder why?
As you've gone into such detail, can you provide a pic with multiple sheriff's wearing striped/hooped tops, a 6 pointed star and nothing else?
Cheers.

[ChillDoubt]

As I said earlier, it's more Buchenwald than Boot Hill and that's a fact!

[boxtops]

If Zaea has used a red star, nobody would have kicked off at all.

[Gromit]

Chill,

// I may be wrong but I believe the picture of the insignia you gave may be exclusive to one camp //

The Nazis never used the star of David, they used two triangles. A yellow triangle of a jew, and a different coloured triangle for home, homosexual etc.

The photo you posted has had the Star of David photoshopped on. Here is the original pic.

http://www.revisionistphotos.com/photos/uniform.html

[anotheoldgit]

At first I would agree with most on here, but apparently this is not the first time Zara has been forced to withdraw a product.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_03/bag180907_468x679.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_03/Donnelly180907_468x714.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-482476/Zara-bosses-forced-withdraw-Swastika-handbags-shelves.html

[ChillDoubt]

But this:
http://i.imgur.com/9UU9uYp.jpg

[Gromit]

Chill,

A real uniform (in colour)
http://www.uni.edu/riedmill/russia22001_0117_231113AA.JPG

A childs shirt
http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/o-ZARA-570.jpg

A bit you are rubbish at spot the difference competitions.

[ChillDoubt]

Combined with this:
http://www.history.com/images/media/slideshow/remembering-the-holocaust/jewish-couple.jpg

[ChillDoubt]

Conjures up this popularly held image:
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/themes/_wpnewspaper/timthumb.php?src=http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Mideast-IsraelOrthodox-Jewish-children-protest.jpg&q=90&w=479&zc=1

As I said, a resemblance. The outfit by Zara does not conjure an image of Wyatt Earp et al.

[Sqad]

Could someone please point out the value of designing a top for their outlets which was a deliberate copy of the uniforms worn by the inmates of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

[sp1814]

AOG

Thank you for the link.

The swastika handbag...makes no sense whatsoever. I don't understand how that could have slipped through.

Regarding the Star of David / Sherriff's badge top...I agree with Retrochic. My guess is that whoever designed the top simply didn't 'see' the similarity. It's entirely possible that the designer wouldn't even have that reference point in their head...like the Australian bar owner I read about a few years ago...

Wanted to brighten up her bar, so painted rainbow stripes all over the outside, and couldn't work out why her clientele suddenly changed.

[ChillDoubt]

A bit you are rubbish at spot the difference competitions.
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You must have been *** at Cowboys and Indians! LOL

[B00]

"Wanted to brighten up her bar, so painted rainbow stripes all over the outside, and couldn't work out why her clientele suddenly changed. "

LOL!!! Reminded me, I was looking for flags for my caravan and came across a wonderfully bright rainbow one on Ebay, "I'll have one I thought" till I saw what it represented, hmmm, perhaps not on a campsite eh?

[ChillDoubt]

For anyone confused:

http://system.buysend.com/Images/0/41458_1.jpg

[Sqad]

Is that a Jewish cowboy?

[ChillDoubt]

Or better still, sheriff pyjamas:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41usQGe6qBL._SY445_.jpg

That's how I imagined they might be, anyway.

[ChillDoubt]

LOL, yes Sqad, Wyatt Goldstein, baddest bagel-slinger in the West!

[Mamyalynne]

As we trundle through life,we can choose to be offended- or simply accept that sometimes things are not quite as we like them.

It doesn't mean we forget the past with all its horrors, we can still remember.

[Sqad]

LOL. ^^^^^^^

[Sqad]

Mamy...*** hell.....I almost cried reading your post.....almost.