Shirt with KZ-optics: Fashion chain Zara withdraws child shirt with yellow star

Child shirt in the Zara online store: “Inspires from sheriff stars from classical westerns”

A touched child shirt with star on the chest gets the fashion chain to Zara in trouble. The shirt reminds of the clothes of KZ-prisoners.

Madrid/Hamburg - the question, which is now asked, is everywhere the same: What thereby only imagined?

As “Striped 'sheriff' t-shirt” offers the Spanish fashion chain to Zara a langärmeliges Hemdchen for babies and infants up to three years, with whom the breath most customer might come to a hold: The textile is dark blue and knows touched, on the left chest is imprinted a large, yellow star with six points. The association with the so-called Jew star, which the Nazi regime its victims attached as obligation characteristic, is obvious just like with (however lengthwise) the touched clothes of KZ-prisoners. “The shirt appears to the US-weekly paper as disgusting, secret side blow on Jewish survivors of Holocaust”, writes a commentator “The Jewish presses”. Also in the social media the excitement is large over the design mistake. Word “sheriff” hardly perceptibly in the meantime removed the shirt for Zara from the trade, as a spokesman of the parent company communicates Inditex on request of Spiegel online. In Germany it was anyway not available, but so far probably however in some other national online shops of the chain, among them in Israel and Turkey - there the product is also still visible. The question, where the shirt was otherwise still sold, Inditex provided so far no information.

“The design of the T-shirt was only inspired by sheriff stars from classical westerns, as it also in the product description is said”, writes the Inditex spokesman in a mail. Actually the word “sheriff” is to be seen, however transparency and from there hardly perceptible on the star. According to sarcastically commentated the Israeli journalist Dimi Reider the case in its blog. “It is a sheriff shirt for your three-year one. Completely obviously. Which it should be also otherwise?” With the case it does not act around the first product lapse with Zara. So the enterprise had to remove a handbag in the year 2007 from its collection, which was decorated with multicolored swastikas. Last there was excitement over Zara T shirts with the slogan “White is the new Black”.