With minutes to go until England begins its World Cup Friendly warm-up against Peru, it appears the supporters will be sporting a somewhat unusual attire. While we have grown used to outrageous costumes in the past, as RT reports [4], the similarity between "England's Wearable Flag" and a "Ku Klux Klan Outfit" are a little too close for comfort...
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As RT reports, a UK supermarket’s wearable England World Cup flag promotion provoked a storm across social media on Friday after the peaked white hood – supposedly designed to protect the wearer from rain – reminded many of the racist Ku Klux Klan.
Social media is abuzz...
Asda are selling wearable England flags, they look dodgy to say the least... pic.twitter.com/cGBsSdQyP9 [6]
— Kieran (@KieranCPhoto) May 29, 2014 [7]
A spokeswoman for the supermarket chain responded to the outrage.
“We know there's chatter on Twitter about our wearable World Cup flags, but it's simply a flag with a hood - nothing more, nothing less,” she said in a statement.
“We want customers to get behind the team without getting wet.”