It can be very difficult when buying designer clothes to spot a replica clothes before it is bought. There are a couple of good guides relating to specific brands, but for the rest you are on your own. However when you recieve it and it clearly is a fake, there is no reason to accept it and write it off against experience. So how can you tell a fake clothes?
The absolute giveaway always is the stitching Look at sown on labels, especially on high quality replica jeans, fake jeans and knock off jackets. You may be able to see the stitching of the real item if you look very carefully, but it will be fine stitching and of a cotton that blends in very well with the main material. If you can see the stitching through the other side without having to look very carefully, it is almost certainly a fake clothes.You won't for instance see thick white cotton on a beige jacket, which I saw once on a CP Company fake jacket. Also there are quite often crudely stictched on fake labels that aren't straight or in the right place.
A second giveaway is the material. Fake clothing by their nature are cheaply made and of a cheap often coarse material. They looked absolutely identical even down to the sown on Burberry logo. It was only when you felt the replica shoes material that you realised it was coarse and fairly uncomfortable to wear, whereas the real item was of a fine and comfortable material.If you you do not have a feel for designer materials, go into your local designer store in the nearest big town, preferably one that stocks a number of brands and just feel the replica shirts, trousers, knock off jackets etc and notice the fine quality of the material. For some time I kept two replica Burberry shirts to show people the difference between fake clothing and the real item.
A third giveaway is the buttons. On better replica apparels the buttons are also properly faked, but some fak apparels are so cheap they even have the wrong buttons! So if you buy a replica shirt and the buttons say HK368, you've been had.
Finally a few guidelines for avoiding replica apparels in the first place.
1) You are much safer buying smaller designer labels than the big international designer names. Go to India or the Far East and you will see market stalls awash with fake designer apparels of everyting. They are always the big names people recognise. Versace, Ralph Lauren, Armani, Lacoste, Stone Island, Diesel, Prada to mention only a few. In menswear, labels like Nicole Farhi, Ozwald Boateng, John Smedley, Kenzo, Canali, Zegna, Ted Baker, Nigel Hall again to mention only a few are rarely faked.
2) Beware the acronym BNWT (Brand New with Tags) on the big designer names. Unless they are at a sensible price, they will nearly always be replica clothes. Once again if you ever get the chance to visit India or the Far East, you will realise just how many of these are produced.
3) Check the feedback. If there are a number of feedbacks suggesting the items are fake clothing and the seller is continually selling the same sort of merchamdise, be very wary.
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