Posted on 09/28/2020 7:03:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Popular clothing brand Fred Perry has announced it will no longer sell a specific polo top in the USA and Canada following its association with a far-right group.
British brand Fred Perry has long been associated with diversity and independence, and is a popular symbol of British youth subculture. However, over recent years their polo tops have taken on another meaning as they began being worn by The Proud Boys.
However, Fred Perry have just released a statement making it clear that they have no affiliation with the extremist group, and they want the association to be diminished completely.
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(Excerpt) Read more at hitc.com ...
For your interest.
So anyone associated with the terrorist group BLM Inc. or Dem Party should be boycotted and shunned, right?
There should be passable Vietnamese knockoffs on the street in a week.
Such a shame. Is Fred Berry’s clothing line still available? In the market for a beret and suspenders.
Uhm...because of their commitment to diversity, they are going to discriminate against a particular group...
That guy in the picture above has a pretty dark complexion for a white supremacist........../s
My guess is very few of these shirts are actually sold in the US.
He’s not voting for Biden so...
The guy had some serious moves. But he never should have taped that Doobie Brothers Concert.
Fred Perry shirts have been associated with skinhead culture (not necessarily the racist kind) in England since at least the ‘80s
So it’s maybe a bit disingenuous for them to worry all of a sudden
Oh, for crying out loud.
You don’t like who’s buying your merchandise so you discontinue the line.
Way to shoot yourself in the foot.
Idiots.
>>British brand Fred Perry has long been associated with diversity and independence, and is a popular symbol of British youth subculture.
Fred Perry shirts have been part of skinhead wear for decades.
And Proud Boys aren’t skinheads.
1980s photo
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/skinhead-with-fred-perry-shirt-gavin-watson/fgFOrek5N4rOJw?hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead
The rise to prominence of skinheads came in two waves, with the first wave taking place in the late 1960s and the second wave originating in the mid 1970s to early 1980s. The first skinheads were working class youths motivated by an expression of alternative values and working class pride, rejecting both the austerity and conservatism of the 1950s-early 1960s and the more middle class or bourgeois hippie movement and peace and love ethos of the mid to late 1960s. Skinheads were instead drawn towards more working class outsider subcultures, incorporating elements of early working class mod fashion and Jamaican music and fashion, especially from Jamaican rude boys.[1] In the earlier stages of the movement, a considerable overlap existed between early skinhead subculture, mod subculture, and the rude boy subculture found among Jamaican British and Jamaican immigrant youth, as these three groups interacted and fraternized with each other within the same working class and poor neighbourhoods in Britain.[2] As skinheads adopted elements of mod subculture and Jamaican British and Jamaican immigrant rude boy subculture, both first and second generation skins were influenced by the heavy, repetitive rhythms of dub and ska, as well as rocksteady, reggae, and African-American soul, rhythm and blues and funk music.[2][3][4]
Members of the second generation in the 1980s were often ex-punks or influenced by the punk subculture. Many of these second generation ex-punk and punk-influenced skinheads, though fans of ska and reggae like the previous generation of skinheads, continued to listen to and create punk music and were heavily involved in the punk movement. Skinhead subculture has remained closely connected with and has overlapped with punk subculture ever since. 1980s skins were closely aligned with first wave punk, working class Oi! and street punk, ska, reggae, 2 Tone ska, ska punk, dub, dancehall, ragga, anarcho-punk, hardcore punk, post-punk, thrash metal, death metal, black metal and grunge. Contemporary skinhead fashions range from clean-cut 1960s mod- and rude boy-influenced styles to less-strict grunge, metal and punk-influenced styles.[5]
During the early 1980s, political affiliations grew in significance and split the subculture, distancing the far right and far left strands, although many skins described themselves as apolitical. As a pro-working class movement that was initially highly regionalised and excluded by society’s moral norms, skinhead culture sometimes attracted hard-line far-right radicals, and was eventually influenced in the mid-1980s by violent fringe elements espousing extreme racism.[6] From the 1990s, disaffected, Neo-Fascist or Neo-Nazi youths in the former nation of East Germany, Spain, Finland, Central and Eastern European countries such as Russia adopted the style. Many skinheads remain influenced by dissident, left-wing, syndicalist or center-left politics or otherwise independent pro-working class politics that have been part of the movement since the beginning, particularly in the U.K. and the U.S., while others continue to embrace the subculture as a largely apolitical working class movement.
Clothing
Male Skinhead (UK)
Skinheads wear long-sleeve or short-sleeve button-down shirts or polo shirts by brands such as Ben Sherman, Fred Perry, Brutus, Warrior or Jaytex; Lonsdale or Everlast shirts or sweatshirts; Grandfather shirts; V-neck sweaters; sleeveless sweaters (known in the UK as a tank top); cardigan sweaters or T-shirts (plain or with text or designs related to the skinhead subculture).
OOOOOOOH ! I’m tellin’ mama.
>>Fred Perry has long been associated with... independence
It’s a joiner’s uniform. Remove the little crest symbol from it and it’s just another golf shirt. But no one who sees it know who made it. Where’s the fun in that?
The Proud Boys should start wearing Nike branded stuff...
Apparently there were articles about this 2 years ago and they are making the syndicates again. Phony controversy but a way for the news agencies to whip up hysteria about white supremacists and “Trump supporters”. Just in time to influence early voters.
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