Friday, February 18, 2011

RETAGGING: The Latest Craze in Menswear


The collar of the shirt was damaged because of Retagging


COLOURS label was simple impossible to remove
Photos courtesy of reader 
Special thanks to graphic artist:  MIKO LEE 

After the Puey Quinones incident, more clients who were victims of RETAGGING have been sharing their stores.  One reader sent me photos of her son's polo and pants.  She requested me not to reveal her identity.  Let us respect that. From the photos, it is noticeable that the collar was damaged because of retagging.  It was impossible to remove the COLOURS branding from the pants so the designer simply attached her tag in the middle.

It seems like male clients are more prone to this malpractice.  Retagging is a crime because we have laws on intellectual property (Republic Act 8293).  What puzzles me is that if this designer feels that it is a waste of  time to create the polo and pants from scratch, why can't she be honest?  She should have advised the client to go to the malls instead.  Filipinos are lucky to have many malls that sell reasonably priced good quality garments.  Go shopping instead!

My advice:  To the brides to be, I suggest you buy the ensembles of the male entourage members from the malls if your designer is too busy with the gowns of the ladies.  Just send them to the alteration center if minor changes are needed. This will spare you from all the drama.  

And now for the much awaited question.  Who is this female designer?

Clue:  This female designer has a long name...

HULI KA! Follow me on twitter: micsylim.

20 comments:

  1. ang initials ba ay katumbas ng hita?

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  2. or at least the first and last letter of it??

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  3. Hmmm...could this female designer be the sister of a famous Filipino athlete??? :P

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  4. ipa-fashion pulis na yan!

    http://blackberryvision.tumblr.com/post/3276046668/the-fashion-police-are-real-worrrrrk

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  5. lets go bowling! hehehe! :)

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  6. Mike, why'd you delete your clue and the spot-on hula of one commenter? Sha na ba yun? :)

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  7. Papa Mike why did u delete my hula? Dahil tama ba? OKs lang yun HULA lang naman eh. besides kung magpapaka-gossip pasabog blog ka dapat masanay ka, OWN UP to it! Kever sa mga haters besides TOTOO naman mga chikabels mo eh! xoxo

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  8. These designers thinks clothes are like photos in Facebook you can just tag and tag, untag and re-tag anytime HAHAHAHAHA

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  9. Suplada at napakataray pa ng designer na yan! Akala mo kung sinong magaling ang chaka naman ng mga tahi! Di ka na nga makagawa ng maganda manloloko pa!

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  10. Public! Beware of super high profile designers who do nothing but partying and socializing! Those so called hype designers who concentrates on self publicity instead of working and supervising their own shops. That's the reason why they are not always available to attend to their clients. They leave their worked unchecked and delivers faulty garments!

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  11. She has to be exposed as all frauds should be!

    Strike!!!!

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  12. In a construction-point-of-view, no local designer can produce this kind of workmanship in the inner craftmanship of this slacks since special machines and materials are used in mass production clothes. so for this stupid designer to claim that this is her product made from her atalier. FUCK YOU BITCH! hindi pa ganyan ka pulido ang gawang mananahi teh! mag bowling ka nalang teh!

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  13. I knw also knw some designers there in the Phil who use to get their stuff from China. Actually malamang this coming PFW esoshow nya nanaman galing China. Hay naku... sila ang reason kaya nagkakaFashion WEAK ang Pinas...

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  14. to anonymous march 23. That trend is widespread!! I've heard that suppliers from China would peddle their wares to famous designers. Designer would then 'sketch' the design for their patrons and VOILA! may tag na nila. crazy! Email details to FP para ma-expose na!

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  15. oh...she made my wedding gown...tsk tsk and FP was my wedding host!

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  16. more clues pleaseee

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  17. you're the best, FP! :)

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  18. beware of G----. this men's store is notorious in this kind of modus operandi.

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  19. also beware of hand BAGS store, they buy their bags from Malaysia, does a little bit of alteration to a 100 peso bag and TADAH, they sell it for 2,000 pesos!

    I know cause when I visited Malaysia and went into one of their famous "tiange" I saw the exact replica of a bag I bought from BAGS, minus the BAGS tag. Said bag was only 150, managed to knock down the price to 75 by purchasing 5 bags.

    The bag I bought from BAGS? It costed me 1,800. I thought it was a discount cause I met the owner of BAGS and the original price it was being sold was 2,500.....

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