PING PONG FASHIONS is the title the English designer, John Carr Doughty, has given to his latest collection of knitwear. Two “Shanghai tunics” in light-on-dark tones of pink, brick, and yellow have the thoughts of Mao In Chinese lettering worked into the design. The lettering was copied from photographs of wall posters in Shanghai. The Chinese Legation in London refused an invitation to attend the first showing of the clothes, saying it was a “trivialisation” of Chairman Mao’s thoughts. A member of the Design and Development Centre, which issued the invitation, said the legation took a “very dim view” of what the centre considered good propaganda.

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32838, 11 February 1972, Page 5

PING PONG FASHIONS is the title the English designer, John Carr Doughty, has given to his latest collection of knitwear. Two “Shanghai tunics” in light-on-dark tones of pink, brick, and yellow have the thoughts of Mao In Chinese lettering worked into the design. The lettering was copied from photographs of wall posters in Shanghai. The Chinese Legation in London refused an invitation to attend the first showing of the clothes, saying it was a “trivialisation” of Chairman Mao’s thoughts. A member of the Design and Development Centre, which issued the invitation, said the legation took a “very dim view” of what the centre considered good propaganda.