I think making the star gray (to simulate silver) rather than yellow would have made a huge difference, although the similarities would have still been evocative to many.
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OT, but the perception of history teaching in schools in the UK is that itâs all about WW2, but the only bit we ever covered was the Home Front, which was basically the only aspect I wasnât interested in. I know Iost marks for trying to shoehorn the Battle of Britain into my workâŚ
Of course, I didnât actually study History, because we were taught âHumanitiesâ instead, which is History and Geography combined, with all the interesting content removed and lots of tedious crap about empathy added. Certainly studied nothing about the Holocaust.
We did do one trip to a synagogue in RE (along with a mosque and a Sikh temple).
Do a google search for âsheriff badgeâ. You will see a ton of 6 point badges, as well as 5 and 7 point. Jews donât hold a monopoly on 6 point stars.
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Almost all of them either have those distinctive rounded points or a circular border though. That, plus the âyellow fabric star sewn to a striped black & white shirt,â tells me that someone didnât do much research into Old West fashion.
Either that or someone is under the impression that The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was a Western.
Yeah - it doesnât scream âWild Westâ to me, and the thin lines actually make it hard to see the star.
But look close, there are round points at the tips, and I think it actually says Sheriff on there. That pic I found is really large so you can zoom in.
Then someone would have ripped the design and beat them to market. :-/
i donât think it was meant to be a wild west cosplay outfit. i donât know how to word this well, but my feeling is that the sheriff badge design was playing on female empowerment (itâs a womanâs shirt), kind of saying âi run this town.â iâm not saying itâs particularly inspired, but there are a lot of designs which use this kind of degenerate irony: âboss of youâ, âmy house, my rulesâ, etc.
Come now.
As an Italian, I understand completely â the general feeling in Italy is that no one ever supported Mussolini, and everyone knows someone whoâs father was a partisan rebel â but you canât pretend Franco had no support from the citizens of Spain. You canât depict half the country as his âcronies.â (And the same goes, of course, for Mussolini).
Who made up the ranks of the Nationalists in the civil war? There were many, many fascists in Spain at the time. Who continued to support him all the way til his death in 1975? Iâve even met (only 2, but still) Francoists personally.
No one likes to admit to their countyâs sorry past, but people should still know and accept their countrymenâs mistakes.
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Oh câmon - the Boy in the Striped Pajamas had vertical stripes, not horizontal. And he wasnât even wearing a star! Nothing alike!
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See, my daughterâs school covered the holocaust & WWii pretty much exclusively. She knows loads about that, and absolutely nothing else. Mind you, I donât think I learned anything in history class. Certainly none of the history I know, anyway.
According to the information Iâve seen it sounds like it was intended as a unisex pajama top for young children. Where are you getting the idea that itâs a âwomanâs shirt?â
I tend to agree with you here and in Post 26 as well: I donât know where the Zara designers are based, but I suspect that itâs either India or Asia, and that they hear âjust do as I sayâ so often that they donât give a [CENSORED].
Aha, I see that even in Spain, the Cluelessness is strong, and @werkbau gives good historical reasons: with little to no Jewish residents thanks to Spain driving them all out after the Reconquista, and post-civil war Spain shuttered up as Franco did his âLA LA LA I CANâT HEAR YOUâ to the rest of Europe during the war, to the point of even making Else and Rick in Casablanca siblings instead of lovers(!), well, the pieces are set for these sorts of train wrecks.
To me, it just reveals a lack of attention to detail that makes me not want to buy their products at all.
from the shape of the article, and how Zara mostly caters to women (Iâve been in a few).
nonetheless, there are also toddlerâs shirts with phrases like âboss of youâ, with the same sort of ironic intent, so my point stands.
You might want to rephrase that sentence. 
Maybe it was intended as written. Honesty being the best policy and all that, plus after all, every one of us was inside a woman once.
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