The New York City boutique’s store manager is allegedly responsible for the caption, which has since been removed.
Three days ago, the official Instagram account for Patricia Field, a fashion boutique, captioned a photo with "Come get your #Adidas Streetball Tranny Football platforms."
On the official Patricia Field website, however, the shoes are listed simply as "Streetball Platform Wedges."
Emmy Award winning Designer Patricia Field, who is most well-known for her work on Sex and the City, has owned the Patricia Field boutique in New York City for over 40 years.
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"We were not aware that Barbie, who is our manager, put out this caption. She misnamed them because it's the adidas Blue Collection, not Adidas – that was the first mistake. The second mistake, I don't know why she used that word [...] Barbie says she used the word in a sense of 'fierce' and not literally 'tranny' – this is the kind of lingo that goes on. [Barbie] didn't realize the rest of the world wouldn't recognize that meaning of the word."
