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Posted by Morrissey on December 10, 2020, 1:00 am
'Trail of Tiers' Trelise Cooper dress slammed as 'height of total insensitivity' Auckland reporters 13:43, Dec 10 2020
Fashion designer Dame Trelise Cooper is under fire over a new dress design called “Trail of Tiers”. The $299 summer dress, which has been removed from her website, has drawn ire on social media platform Twitter.
The name of the dress is similar to Trail of Tears – the forced relocation of about 46,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States federal government. Native Americans were driven off their land on foot and forced to move across the Mississippi River to what was dubbed “Indian territory”.
Professor Joanna Kidman from Victoria University of Wellington said she came across Cooper’s website and the dress and found the name “very jarring”.
“I couldn’t believe what I was actually seeing.”
Kidman took to Twitter to express her thoughts....