Topman Withdraws 'Offensive' T-Shirts - Sky News

5:38pm UK, Wednesday September 14, 2011

Topman has withdrawn two T-Shirts from sale following an online campaign by a domestic abuse charity.

The tops were withdrawn following the campaign

The tops both carried messages which abuse charity Tender said "appeared to be making light of the excuses made for domestic abuse".

One T-shirt carried the words "I'm so sorry but..." followed by a series of "answer options" next to tick boxes.

The "answer" included "You provoked me", "I was drunk" and "I hate you".

The second item was printed with the words: "Nice girlfriend. What breed is she?"

Tender had set up an online donation site to try to raise more money than the T-shirt raised through sales, but the campaign went viral and spread to Facebook, prompting hundreds of people to join in protest.

We are really pleased that Topman have taken notice of our campaign and have responded positively by removing these t-shirts from sale.

Tender spokesperson

In a statement, Topman said: "We have received some negative feedback regarding two of our printed T-shirts.

"Whilst we would like to stress that these T-shirts were meant to be light-hearted and carried no serious meaning, we have made the decision to remove these from store and online as soon as possible.

"We would like to apologise to those who may have been offended by these designs."

A spokesperson for Tender said: "We are really pleased that Topman have taken notice of our campaign and have responded positively by removing these T-shirts from sale and we would like to thank them for that.

"We are in touch with them and have offered them the opportunity to support Tender's preventative work and to attend a training course about abuse."