Cotton On

As the 8000-plus readers of Mia Freedman’s Twitter feed will already know, the clothing company, “Cotton On” has launched a new range of baby suits and T-shirts, bearing the amusing
slogan: “They Shake Me.’’

This baby's shirt is harmless by comparison to Cotton On's latest offering

Trouble is, all the babies in the ads for the “They Shake Me” range are bright and happy and smiling at the camera.

Surely, if Cotton On is going to make light of child abuse, they should use a real-life victim of child abuse to model the clothes?

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  • Amy says:

    09:55pm | 23/10/11

    Basically, if you dont like the shirt, you dont buy one. Simple as that, I dont see how its anymore offensive than South Park or Family Guy Shirts. Read more »

  • Roger says:

    06:22pm | 28/06/10

    How is “you shake me” even funny? I don’t understand the humour.  What’s next? “I’m a Nazi”? There’s no humour—it’s just tasteless fashion and plain offensive! The slogan tries to derive humour by feeding off negative real-life situations and for me personally, that is unacceptable! Read more »

 

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