The business responded by saying that while the pack was a part of a cat line with a Japanese motif, they could “understand why” the mother was upset with the design in this particular situation.
Nicola clarified: “My daughter had commented on how comfy the [knickers] were when I had previously purchased them for her in a different style.
“I believed she would like them. You could only tell that the front pair was gingham, and they came in a set of four. “Aside from this arbitrary one in the bundle,
None of them had anything to do with Japanese symbols. “She asked me, ‘What does this imply, Mum?’ when I brought them home. ‘I don’t know, I didn’t see it,’ I said.
“It was a rough translation for a slang term for cat, like ‘pussy, puss, moggy’,” she said, revealing the meaning only after using Google Translate and Google Lens.
“If the pants had anything to do with cats, like pictures of cats or something like that [that would be fine] but there’s no correlation as to why.
This symbol should be on there, especially on children’s pants,” she said. “I was in complete awe.” In Poundland, they [even] come in ages three to four.
