The 1984 Bars Hoodie

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50% cotton, 50% polyester
Medium-heavy fabric (8.0 oz/yd² (271 g/m²))
Classic fit
Tear-away label
Runs true to size

	Width,in	Length,in	Sleeve length from centre back,in
S	20.08	27.17	33.50
M	22.05	27.95	34.50
L	24.02	29.13	35.50
XL	25.98	29.92	36.50
2XL	27.99	31.10	37.01
3XL	29.92	31.89	38.50
4XL	31.89	33.07	39.50
5XL	33.86	33.86	40.50

What is a prison? It is a very large building surrounded by razor wire, where people wear one of two uniforms depending on whether they are paid to be there or attending free of charge.

But a prison doesn’t necessarily have bars of soap and shower rooms in which you would be well advised not to drop them. A prison only has to confine people – and it doesn’t need walls to do that.

George Orwell understood this. In Nineteen Eighty-Four he portrayed the entire world as a prison, where everyone simultaneously plays convict and guard. Every correspondence, every movement, every relationship and every conversation is pored over and checked for error.

We’re going to do something that has never been tried before: compare the actual world to the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four. We would posit that our world, in which middling government bureaucrats can read your emails and track your movements – and aggressive freelance authoritarians can get you deplatformed and fired for saying the wrong kinds of things – is not at all unlike Winston Smith’s Oceania.

Which other aspects of Nineteen Eighty-Four can we find in our country? A media which will say anything to protect the ruling party and malign its members’ enemies? A military-industrial complex which champs at the bit to wage war – or at the very least arm warriors? A relentless push to change language, erase history and make people accept what’s false as true?

Perhaps. But at least we have mindless distractions.

EU representative: HONSON VENTURES LIMITED, gpsr@honsonventures.com, 3, Gnaftis House flat 102, Limassol, Mesa Geitonia, 4003, CY

Product information: Gildan 18500, 2 year warranty in EU and Northern Ireland as per Directive 1999/44/EC

Warnings, Hazard: For adults, Made in Bangladesh

Care instructions: Machine wash: cold (max 30C or 90F), Non-chlorine: bleach as needed, Tumble dry: medium, Iron, steam or dry: low heat, Do not dryclean

Details

50% cotton, 50% polyester
Medium-heavy fabric (8.0 oz/yd² (271 g/m²))
Classic fit
Tear-away label
Runs true to size

Fit

	Width,in	Length,in	Sleeve length from centre back,in
S	20.08	27.17	33.50
M	22.05	27.95	34.50
L	24.02	29.13	35.50
XL	25.98	29.92	36.50
2XL	27.99	31.10	37.01
3XL	29.92	31.89	38.50
4XL	31.89	33.07	39.50
5XL	33.86	33.86	40.50