Can anything be more fatuous than this particular enterprise: a pair of orange knickers emblazoned with handcuffs, so when you drop your drawers you automatically think of Guantanamo:
As is the case in the happiest of marriages, this natural combination inevitably produced a most striking offspring: a pair of knickers in what is being described as "Guantánamo Bay orange", mini handcuff dangling from the front and the catchy slogan "Fair trial my arse" emblazoned on the, um, back. Happy Valentine's day, sweetie!
This is not the first time Agent Provocateur has mixed slogans with silk. There were the seductive knickers embroidered with the statement "The only Bush I trust is my own" because every woman secretly loves to wear a political pun on her pants. And it's a style that comes naturally to Corre, whose mother Vivienne Westwood likes to wear a shirt that informs onlookers: "I am not a terrorist."
But is there not a risk that flogging orange pants might diminish the seriousness of the politics behind them? Martha Lane Fox, a trustee of Reprieve, shrugs: "The absurdity of this collaboration reflects the absurdity of Guantánamo Bay, in which people are held indefinitely without fair trials. The pants are no more absurd than that."
No, the pants are absurd, the suspension of habeus corpus is something else again.
I notice when I go to the Agent Provocateur website there's a soft-porn video on the front.
2 comments:
These prisioners are not subject to the Geneva convention. Plus most of their own countries do not want them back.
If you're looking for torture, oppression etc., look elsewhere.
These people were not on their holidays.
And all the folks who've died in attacks the detainees have helped plan, or at least endorse, were executed without trials of any kind! When I see people wearing such garments, I have to wonder about their intelligence.
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