Oh COME ON, Asda!

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Asda launches wearable England flag

Asda execs can't see anything wrong with this. At all?

YANBU. Nothing to do with flags, wouldn't matter if it had pictures of unicorns and fairies on the back it would immediately bring the kkk to my mind. Terribly unfortunate design.

is my dd's hood offensive too

That one puts me in mind of munchkin city mrsbucket

mrsbucket, your DD is absolutely gorgeous - what a happy wee face

Looked like a KKK robe to me too without reading what the issue was.

thank you shouldhave

The England flag part of it does not offend me.

Well, whoopee doo, I am soooooo grateful.

i saw kkk robe too before i even read down the thread. and mrsbucket your dd is gorgeous, but had that outfit been white i probably would have made a joke about it looking like a clan outfit. sorry. All white outfits with pointy hoods just mean kkk to me. i wouldn't get offended by them, but i would think the designers may have thought about it a bit more. But as loads of other people just don't see it, i guess i am odd

oh and i'm English and wear the flag as does ds. just not white pointy hooded cloaks with flags on!

Hate to say this but I've seen a real klan uniform on someone and that looks nothing like it. It does however resemble a nasty cheap towel thrown round his head and shoulders.

LOL @ that anorak being patriotic.

Is is bollocks.

If it wasn't' for sport and the EDL half this country wouldn't know a English flag if they were twatted in the face with it.

Nothing wrong with being patriotic as far as I am concerned but plastering flags on ugly fashion items is hardly what made Great Britain great is it?

I reckon good percentage of people who stick the flag up do it in the hope that they will be told to take it down.

What I thought was, 'how are people supposed to see where they're going?'

perfectview

Discussing this on LBC now

As an American, I wouldn't be happy with it. It doesn't look like one of the (current) actual KKK robes, but it does look like a cheap costume parody of one.

Having grown up where I did, it really does touch a nerve in the same way that wearing a swastika or a confederate flag would.

Well Walmart (American) owns Asda, so that proves it!

Devere that really made me laugh so true.

A white witches hat is white and pointed and the rest of the costume clues you in to "this is not a KKK hat". I would think that most people would see the huge red cross and think the same thing.

obviously a KKK costume...

It is a hooded flag and nothing else. It might make the wearer look like a twat, but each to their own there. I see nothing offensive in it.

What a fuss over nothing.

Spoony - that's not a cloak with a hood tho is it? it's a fluffy white dress with a hat I'm not saying all white outfits (my wedding dress for instance) could be similar to klan cloaks but this one seems to have made enough people think it's similar - so maybe there's something in it.

Jeez, people getting their knickers in a twist over nothing!

It will be off the shelves by Saturday.

For people saying 'it's just a flag with a hood', would you be as chilled out if it was a symbol that looked dangerously close to a swastika?

The Ku klux klan may not have been a uk issue, but it is undeniably an offensive one, and surely if a costume, no matter it's intention, reminds people of a ku klux klan hood, it is not unreasonable to find it offensive?