A Chinese woman is seeking compensation after becoming the latest unwary shopper to fall foul of the trend of clothing that carry embarrassing, ungrammatical or just plain baffling English words and phrases. In the latest case, the woman from Qingdao in the eastern province of Shandong claimed her whole family had suffered tremendous emotional damage and embarrassment after wearing a top with the word “DIE” emblazoned on the front to a school parent-teacher meeting. She claimed that it had caused great upset to her family, and her child frequently burst into tears. “Some customers don’t know English so the retailers have to do their due diligence when selling such products,” he said. For the latest news from the South China Morning Post download our mobile app.

Source: The Star March 31, 2018 09:22 UTC