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Do you own any clothes with the Union Jack on them?
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English and no I don't think I've ever 'worn' the flag.
I have a Sex Pistols flag somewhere which is a version of the Union Jack. Other than that, nah.
From a design perspective I think it's OK. Bold, distinctive etc ... but politically it's not something I'm hugely comfortable with. I haven't got a problem with the flag per se but flag veneration isn't something most people go in for here and those that do aren't the sort of people you want to be associated with.
I have a Sex Pistols flag somewhere which is a version of the Union Jack. Other than that, nah.
From a design perspective I think it's OK. Bold, distinctive etc ... but politically it's not something I'm hugely comfortable with. I haven't got a problem with the flag per se but flag veneration isn't something most people go in for here and those that do aren't the sort of people you want to be associated with.
I'm not really sure how to answer that.
Flags (particularly older flags) often have very complicated histories and represent past evils as well as the present population/country and all that encompasses.
I don't necessarily think that flags which represent a murky past should be whitewashed out, as that seems akin to the country washing their hands of their history - like a rebrand of sorts.
It's a symbol of everything - both the positive and the negative.
I used to have a pair of shorts with the flag on them. Not sure how many times I wore them, but this was back when I was a naive teenager. Wouldn't do it nowadays because I'm not very proud of my country.
Bit of a no no here in Ireland.
Was pretty funny when the Spice Girls were popular and loads of kids used to wear them.
Was pretty funny when the Spice Girls were popular and loads of kids used to wear them.
No. Never have had clothes with flags on them. The closest thing would be some Team Sweden hockey jerseys.
I actually have a grey shirt with the union jack made out of skulls on it. :P
The things we buy when we're younger. :P
And I'm not even British.
The things we buy when we're younger. :P
And I'm not even British.
The union is, inherently, something I'm against, and I don't see any positives as a result of it. I don't think we can agree on this.
Wearing one right now in a weird coincidence.
Pretty much all my tops are from Superdry (I always shop online, so I have a tendency to buy all my jeans (gstar), tops (superdry), socks (Tommy Hilfiger), underwear (diesel) etc from the same single brand that fits me best).
Superdry usually if they have flag colors, has the red white and blue from my country's flag, but this particular lumberjack shirt has a Union Jack.
Pretty much all my tops are from Superdry (I always shop online, so I have a tendency to buy all my jeans (gstar), tops (superdry), socks (Tommy Hilfiger), underwear (diesel) etc from the same single brand that fits me best).
Superdry usually if they have flag colors, has the red white and blue from my country's flag, but this particular lumberjack shirt has a Union Jack.
No.
It's not symmetric.
Well now this is going to bother me for the rest of my life.
As an American, I used to have a T-shirt with the UJ on it that said 'Australia' underneath it. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me that it wasn't actually the Australian flag, I could have bought more shirts.
Nah I don't think I own anything with a union jack on it. I'm not an aardman animations character or a nationalist.
Wasn't thar more of a early to mid 2000's thing? At least in America. There were Union Jacks everywhere.
I'd love a new flag, and anthem, and be a republic. One day...
No, but I have a set of mugs that have the Union Jack on them... I'm not patriotic, they just looked cool.
Most common flags i see on jackets in northern Europe are Norwegian, German, and Dutch flags. Sometimes I see some mini cars in Germany with the union jack on the car roof but I seldom see it on clothing
If I do then it's accidental. Don't have any flags on my clothes I don't think. No Scottish ones either. Not a flag kind of fellow.
I have rucksack with a small union jack badge on the back of it. I've had it for years since I was a teenager. I would never have anything with the uk or english flag on it now. Since Brexit I am always cautious whenever I see someone waving it around or planting it.
no way, nationalism is a mental disorder and the union jack represents a whole heap of shit.
also i look too much like an 80s-era racist already without draping myself in imperialistic iconography.
also i look too much like an 80s-era racist already without draping myself in imperialistic iconography.
I have a t-shirt of Paul Revere being chased by a big steam punk British flag wearing robot. If that counts.
Absolutely this. I live in an area that used to be part of Yorkshire until it was re-zoned to be Lancashire in the late 1970s. People here still stick white roses on their doors as some kind of protest.
I have a wallet with one on, which I only ever actually use outside of the U.K. (hey, it seemed amusing at the time). Kind of increasingly uncomfortable with it given the increasingly gross nationalism going on in this country, though, so it may be time to retire it.
I am from the US and I have a few Ben Sherman shirts and I feel like they have it somewhere super small on all of their stuff, but perhaps i am wrong there. With that said it is not like it the design of the shirt itself. If my memory is correct and it is somewhere it is either on the label or a small icon on the sleeve or something like that. It is not like I am rocking the Union Jack flag. I just happen to like the design and cut of Ben Sherman clothes.
Imagine having to live in Lancashire
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Honestly it is crazy that there is still weird vibes between some Yorkshire folk and Lancashire folk 500-ish years later.
Said no, but then I remembered that all Karrimor stuff has a tiny stylised version on it:
So yes.
So yes.