Seaside towns and tacky T-shirts seem to be a continuing theme in Britain – a few months ago it was Scarborough’s T-shirt retailers who were subject to complaints from a seven year old girl, and now there are complaints about ‘puerile, offensive and downright disgusting’ T-shirts on show in Weymouth. The Shirt Shack is the retailer in question and the complaint has come from a 36 year old school governor, Julie Samoeulle, who was asked what the T-shirt slogans meant by her five year old daughter. Mrs Samoeulle ways ‘We’re a tourist town and this isn’t how I want Weymouth to be portrayed. “We are supposedly preparing to have the eyes of the world upon us …Is this what the Olympic sailing teams of the world will be faced with?’

But the director of the shop is unrepentant. He claims both windows of the shop carry Parental Advisory signs and that there’s nothing ‘particularly offensive’ in the shop window. He went on to say, ‘Weymouth is a seaside resort that thrives on these things. It’s nothing different to what you would see in Newquay or Torquay.’

T-shirts that disturb in a different way are on show across five countries during October. They are part of the Clothesline Project, which draws attention to domestic violence. Women’s Centres and other support groups supply T-shirts that are then decorated by with statements about domestic violence and hung on clotheslines in public places. The Clothesline Project started in 1990 in Massachusetts, USA with 31 shirts on a village green in Hyannis as part of an annual “Take Back the Night” march and rally. It has since grown to showcase around 60,000 shirts with projects in 41 American states and five countries worldwide.

Clothesline project courtesy of UTedu

Clothesline project courtesy of UTedu

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