Lee Rips Threadless
August 9th, 2007 by LiQ
Those guys and gals over at Threadless must be the most flattered people in the world, because they are one of the most imitated!
Here is a design on a shirt from apparel company Lee, as you can see this ‘original’ design is a clear imitation of the famous Threadless shirt Flowers In The Attic.
[Below] Lee Rip off
[Bottom] Threadless Original
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that makes me really sad…i thought lee was better than that!
http://www.lee.com
Take a look at that, you actually think this company made that shirt?
Well of course they made the shirt, but someone bought it and then put the print on – that isn’t a professional silkscreen.
Not that I care about Lee or anything, I just think you should get your facts straight before you go pointing the finger at anyone.
citizen x, you’re retarded.
lee does make silkscreens, take a walk around a jcpenny’s and do YOUR research before you call someone else out for being a douchebag.
the fact that it doesn’t look like a professional screen sounds even more like a lee shirt
At last! Threadless is the one getting ripped instead of ripping. I’ve had so many of my designs show up on their site…
That’s not a Lee screen.
I didn’t say they didn’t make screens. And I didn’t call anyone a douchebag.
I just said it wasn’t theirs.
Did you even go to the website, you silly cunt?
There’s not one design that even CLOSELY resembles this shirt, or it’s lame faux-scenester bullshit style.
And I don’t have to do any research, I’m not the one running a website accusing people of ripping other people off…they’ve been wrong on here before.
Hey Ann,
I’m sorry you are mistaken, this IS an official Lee shirt, it is being sold in Lee’s Melbourne stores. The screen print mightn’t look that crisp because one, it’s designed to look grungy and two, it has a glittery print (the black areas). If you want to check up (although I’m not sure where you would do this), the label on it (not pictured) says the line number (style) is 62081.
But yes it’s not on their site despite having the ‘www.leejeans.com.au’ address on their tag. Most retail clothing stores don’t put their ENTIRE range on their site, only a handful of items.
threadless does get ripped a lot. tons of bootleg labels. theres one in Singapore called Puremilk, they basically take designs from everyone. theres threadless ripoffs..rinzen… jasper goodall.
and they do a bad job too! they look awful
ripped!
Hey,
Im sorry guys but Lee DID rip this T off. I first saw this T in an article about threadless.com in Computer Arts Magazine, dated April 2005. The image shown In the article is the same one shown above. Like threadless or not, a cheap rip-off is still a rip-off and theres no two ways around that. Get angry, get mad, rant and rave… but facts are facts.
Billy
Wow all of you are so fucking dumb
Threadless wasnt the original. Flowers in the attic came from an anime cartoon that threadless stole. And btw threadless doesnt design any tees the fans do. They just choose them
http://www.threadless.com/profile/655733/Than_They_Appear/blog/298813/Flowers_in_the_Attic_is_a_Stolen_Design/page,2
The similarity is not so much as to warrant any accusations of theft. The design has been altered, sampled, or mixed if you will, as far as I’m concerned, it’s a (perhaps referential though) original piece of work.