Friday, January 09, 2004

This is pretty outrageous if you ask me. I can't even believe they found 1,200 people to buy these shirts.

'Jewish girls' T-shirts tee off many, but sell like hotcakes

This year, a line of Urban Outfitters T-shirts decried by some Jews as exploiting stereotypes of Jews as moneygrubbers and Jewish women as spoiled princesses is also flying off the shelves — into the closets of willing buyers.

The Philadelphia-based chain is hawking a T-shirt emblazoned with the logo “Everybody Loves a Jewish Girl” along with images of dollar signs and shopping bags. Also available are “Everybody Loves a German, Irish or Italian Girl” tees, featuring images of, respectively, a beer stein, shamrock and pizza slice.


“That’s pretty bad. That’s an unbelievably bad idea from them,” said Sarah Lefton, founder of an offbeat Jewish-themed apparel company, Jewish Fashion Conspiracy.

“With a shamrock for the Irish and pizza for Italians, you’d sort of expect a bagel for the Jewish T-shirt. And they come up with a shopping bag and money. That kind of stereotype isn’t even funny when Jews make it on each other.”


By the way...just checked out the Urban Outfitters website and found all the t-shirts except the Jewish one.

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