Someone Thought This 9/11 Dress Was a Good Idea

Shoppers in London were shocked to see a dress depicting the 9/11 attacks hanging in a stall this week. The dress, printed with an image of the twin towers bursting into flames as two planes fly into them, was hanging in the $6 (£5) rack of the Chrisp Street market, a pedestrian mall, and was reportedly made in an Indian factory before making its way to the U.K.

According to the Sun, the stall’s keeper, Jaspir Bhatti, says he bought the dress as a package from a wholesaler; but that particular company cleared its name and showed that it did not provide the offensive garment.

“There is no way I would sell that, I’m so horrified. I couldn’t even give this to charity. I’m absolutely shocked, it’s just the wrong thing to do — it’s terrifying,” said Bhatti, before handing the item over to the Sun to destroy.

“To me it feels like whoever made that dress or wears it supports what happened. I think it is disgusting,” Lisa Dean told the Evening Standard after her 17-year-old son spied the dress displayed in the market. “I mean, who is actually going to wear that?”

Nearly 3,000 people died in the 9/11 attacks, so making light of the tragedy (or any other one, for that matter) is in poor taste, to say the least. Just last month, a couple near Atlanta’s Dragon Con festival dressed up as the twin towers, using paper to represent smoke and flames. They even attached a Barbie doll to the ensemble, to look like a person falling from the building.

Sigh. Can people just… not?

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