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Fashion brand Fred Perry is recalling its black and yellow polo shirt in the United States and Canada, The Guardian reports. That was later picked up by the Proud Boys organization.
Proud Boys was founded in 2016 in the run-up to the US presidential elections and has been considered by the FBI since 2018 as an “extremist group with ties to the white power movement.”
In a press release on his website, Fred Perry writes that it is “incredibly frustrating” that the group has appropriated his black and yellow polo shirt.
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The shirt has been used since its launch in the 1970s by various subcultures, and Fred Perry is proud that his laurel wreath has represented “inclusion, diversity and independence” for more than 65 years.
Now, however, the jersey has taken on “a new and different meaning in North America” with its connection to the Proud Boys. A connection that “they must do everything possible to stop.”
For that reason, they stop selling the yellow-black polo from September in the United States and Canada until it is no longer associated with the Proud Boys.
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