Re: Knock-off legal?

I think if you are producing the dress for yourself there is no problem,
anyway.  If you were reproducing them to sell commercially, it might be
another story.

My daughter shows horses and I make all of her show clothes.  They don't
just wear your run-of-the-mill western wear; it's all very fitted,
embellished, specialized and trendy.  I get all the high-end horse show
clothes catalogs, and copy from them for her.  We've gotten very good at it,
and we are extremely appreciative of the catalogs that give us a BACK view,
too!


"Joy Hardie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I think if you copy something for mass production re-sale you have to
> change or modify it by 30% to make it legal (from what I recall in my
> baby swimwear production days).
>      But, if you are just making something for yourself can you copy
> something you have seen from a major designer to the best of your
> ability?
>
>      What are the legalities of taking pictures in the dressing room?
>
> Ok, ok......I have a confession.  I should have never done it.  I knew
> it was a bad idea from the start.  But, I went with a friend, just to
> make a return to the "special occassions" department and have lunch at
> the department store.  A dress caught my eye....just a glimpse from
> the corner.  I shouldn't have turned to give it a second look, but
> oooh when I did I fell in love.  In love with a $330 dress!  A dress
> that seconds later, before my friend could put her return money back
> in her purse, I was swanking around the dressing room in.  It was bias
> cut and look perfectly wonderful  - with no bra mind you!
> One bad idea quickly follows another and soon I had my husband at the
> store....just to show him.  Because I havn't spent $330 on all the
> dresses I have ever owned much less on just one that I would have
> absolutely no place to wear anyway (except my friend wanted me to get
> it so badly that she immediately invited my husband and self to a
> black tie affair).  But, the dress was sold.  I was just looking at it
> anyway.  Enjoying the fantasy of windowshopping to the max.
>  But, now I am visiting the dress at the designers website.
>
> Something is terribly wrong with me and I must get that dress!
> But, in a legally approved seamstress sort of a way.
> So, in copying ready-made garments, what's legal and what's not?
> Joy