International clothing retailer Gap has come under fire after listing a striped shirt on their website that many believe drew comparisons to the uniforms inmates were forced to wear at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
To add further fuel to the fire, the item name was listed as "Camp shirt".
Per Fox News, it is still unclear when the shirt first became available on the Gap.com website, but following backlash from people on social media, the retail giant has been forced to pull the shirt.
Unbelievably, this is not the first time something like this has happened, as Zara was also forced to pull shirts:Yesterday, one Twitter user by the name of Pitt Griffin shared a snap of the shirt from the website, along with a picture of an Auschwitz uniform. He wrote: "Clueless?
"The GAP has offered for sale a striped shirt that many have pointed out has distinct similarities to the shirt issued to concentration camp prisoners.
"And just to frost the stupidity they called it a 'camp shirt'".
A second Twitter user by the name of Nina Stössinger also tweeted her response to the item of clothing, saying:
"So @Gap made a white-and-grey wide-striped shirt that reminded me of concentration camp uniforms even before they called it a 'Camp Shirt'. I don’t know if there’s something I’m missing here, but this reads extremely wrong to me."
However, another Twitter user called Maurice Meilleur, clarified that "camp" simply referred to the style of shirt - but admitted it was still a poor choice of words.
He wrote: "'Camp shirt', believe it or not, is a style of shirt: short-sleeve with an open collar, usually lightweight fabric, meant to be worn untucked. But, um, still."
And this is correct - as different color variations of the shirt were still listed as a "Camp shirt" - see below:
However, as of this writing, the name of the shirt above has since been changed to a "striped shirt" - see below:
A spokesperson for Gap confirmed to Fox News on Friday morning that the shirt has been pulled from its online stores, saying in an emailed statement:
"We are deeply sorry for this oversight. It was never our intention to design a shirt that could be interpreted or associated in this way, and thus inconsistent with the beliefs and values of our company. We immediately responded and are having the item removed from our site."
