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Cotton On t-shirt controversy

Cotton On


Greetings everybody.

There seems to be a bit of a rumble to the south as far as t-shirt design goes. Some of you may have heard of the endless stream of complaints t-shirt company Cotton On has received after it released a range of sexually suggestive children’s t-shirts. I thought it would be interesting to see what our own t-shirt design community thought of these slogan designs. Do you think it’s over the top, or simply a waste of a conversation?

Cotton On is a well known Australian clothing manufacturer, who up until now, has made relatively small waves in the t-shirt designs community. I guess all it takes is a little bit of controversy to throw yourself into the lime light. While some marketing guru’s reckon there is no such thing as bad publicity, I think that this episode could very well shatter that belief.

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